Gujarat: Covid-positive UK man with kidney ailment discharged

VADODARA: A 55-year-old man from the UK who had tested positive last month was discharged from GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri on Tuesday afternoon.
Nikhil Patel was the eighth patient to test positive of Covid-19 in Vadodara. After repeat tests of his samples tested negative, he was discharged from the Gotri hospital where doctors and nurses treating him bid farewell amid clapping and cheer celebrating his recovery and discharge.
The UK resident is the sixth patient who has recovered after getting infected from the deadly virus. In a a video call with Vadodara district collector, Shalini Agrawal, Patel thanked the district administration and medical team at Gotri too for ensuring his speedy recovery.
“I thank all the staff, especially the dedicated nurses, who really made a difference in my recovery,” said Patel, who was handed over a discharge card with certificate of recovery and his negative reports by the team of doctors and nurses.
Patel had come to the city from Mumbai on March 18 to undergo ayurvedic treatment for kidney-related ailments and through yoga. While he was undergoing the ayurvedic therapy, he started suffering from high-grade fever after which he was taken to the Gotri hospital on March 26.
His Delhi-based friend who was accompanying him had also tested positive later and is currently under treatment at the same hospital.
As a kidney patient, the UK resident had to undergo regular dialysis. Looking at the condition of the patient, the state government had made special arrangements by equipping the hospital with dialysis facility at the isolation ward where he was admitted. An RO plant and a water pipeline was also laid to ensure that the patient can undergo dialysis uninterruptedly.
The city so far has recorded 12 cases, of which two have died, six have recovered and four are under treatment now.