50% of state's Covid deaths occurred within a wk in hosp

Delayed Care, Poor Facilities Worry Experts

- Sumitra Deb Roy

Mumbai: More than half of Covid deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in the state have occurred in less than a week of a patient’s hospitalisation, shows a state analysis. Over 30% of the fatalities happened with three days of admission.

The short interval has worried experts, who believe it points at delay in seeking care, overwhelmed medical facilities or lack of timely referrals. The state analysed data for 39,688 deaths in the first wave and 60,022 from the second wave. In the first wave, 31.5% deaths occurred within 1 to 3 days of hospitalisation and 22.4% within 4-6 days.

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