This story is from July 23, 2020

Bihar: Samastipur civil surgeon, another doctor die of Covid-19

Samastipur civil surgeon Dr R R Jha and another doctor died on Wednesday as the Covid-19 death toll in state mounted up to 208 and tally surged to 30,066 with 1502 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. Total 19,867 Covid patients have recovered so far while there were 9,980 active cases in state.
Bihar: Samastipur civil surgeon, another doctor die of Covid-19
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PATNA: Samastipur civil surgeon Dr R R Jha and another doctor died on Wednesday as the Covid-19 death toll in state mounted up to 208 and tally surged to 30,066 with 1502 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. Total 19,867 Covid patients have recovered so far while there were 9,980 active cases in state.
Both the doctors who died were admitted to AIIMS-Patna.
Its nodal officer incharge for Covid-19, Dr Sanjeev Kumar, said Dr Jha, 64, was admitted on July 15 and was on dialysis. “Apart from Dr Jha, Dr GN Shah from Araria died today. Chhapra civil surgeon has also been admitted here on Wednesday and the civil surgeon of Nawada is already under treatment. So far, 30-35 doctors are admitted at our hospital,” Dr Sanjeev said.
The state registered over 10,000 Covid-19 cases in just one week. While the first three case was reported on March 22, the tally crossed the 10,000-mark on July 1 and touched 20,000 on July 15 and crossed the 30,000-mark on Wednesday. The maximum 455 fresh cases were reported from Patna district in the last 24 hours. Patna so far has reported 4479 Covid cases with 33 deaths, officially. There were 1856 active cases in the district.
Apart from the two doctors, six others died at AIIMS-Patna, including a 35-year-old Saguna Mor resident, a man (65) from Darbhanga and another 48-year-old from East Champaran besides a man (81) from Rohtas and another 64-year-old from Samastipur.
As per the information shared by the health department, ten deaths were reported, including two each from Patna and Bhagalpur and one each from Arwal, Buxar, Katihar, Purnea, Rohtas and Saran districts.
After Patna, the other districts with higher number of Covid cases were Muzaffarpur (113), Gaya (83), Bhagalpur (79) and Rohtas (68). State health secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh said 1,135 patients recovered from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours and 19,876 statewide so far, taking the recovery rate to 66.11%. He said 40,9088 samples have been tested so far.
The state has IMA urged the government to immediately fulfil the vacancies and relieve doctors above 60 years from handling Covid-19 patients and allow those above 65 years to work from home. “Over 5,000 doctors are waiting for appointment. The government has just to verify their papers,” said state IMA senior vice-president Dr Ajay Kumar.
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