Patan woman wins Covid battle

Palanpur: Savitaben Thakore, a resident of Nana Nayata village of Patan, was admitted for Covid-19 at a Covid care centre with 80 per cent of her lungs affected by the virus. Miraculously, the 69-year-old mother of Pravinbhai Thakore, a constable at Vagdod police station, fought her own battle valiantly and won in just 10 days. After total 12 days of hospitalisation in Sariyad of Sarsati Taluka of the district, she was back home.
Thakore fell critically ill on April 26 and had to be shifted to the Sariyad corona care centre which had begun functioning recently. “On admission, we found that her HRCT score was about 20, which meant 80 per cent of her lungs was infected and this brought her oxygen level down to 60 per cent. We had to inject her remdesivir and administer oxygen continuously for five days. With necessary injections and medicines, we also gave her physiotherapy which finally resulted in her miraculous recovery,” said Dr Mitheshbhai Prajapati.
Her son was all praise for the caretakers at the hospital and said, “My mother escaped from the clutches of death thanks to prompt treatment from the doctors and good care from the nurses at the centre. I owe all of them my gratitude.”