Woman who gave birth to twins recently, 21-year-old Jammu youth among victims
Srinagar, Aug 13: Twelve more people, including a 21-year-old man from Jammu and a 25-year-old woman, who had recently given birth to twin daughters, died of COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday taking the fatality count in the Union Territory to 512.
Among the fatalities, Srinagar reported three, Pulwama and Kupwara two each besides one each in Ganderbal, Budgam, Anantnag, Jammu and Poonch, official sources told GNS.
They said that a 21-year-old youth lost battle with the pestilence in a hospital in Jammu this morning.
A senior doctor at Government Medical College Jammu said that the young man from Satwari area of the winter capital was admitted to the hospital on August 1 and was diagnosed with “Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc, severe anemia, paraparesis and right lower zone CAP.”
The doctor said the man turned out to be positive for the novel coronavirus on August 3 and died at 8:10 a.m.
“The patient was shifted to isolation ward on being found positive,” the doctor added.
Also, they said, a 40-year-old man from Poonch who was referred from Batra to CD hospital died on the way.
A 25-year-old female from Bijbhera Anatnag died at CD hospital here, one of the exclusive facilities of the management of the COVID-19 patients.
“She was referred to LD Hospital as case of pneumonia with Sepsis with AKI after testing positive on Rapid Antigen Test on August 11 at LD Hospital where she had LSCS and had delivered twin daughters,” official sources said.
They said, she was on ventilator and suddenly developed bradycardia followed by cardiac arrest at around 4:30 p.m.
Regarding two deaths from Kupwara, they said, the victims include a 67-year-old who was admitted to hospital on August 10 and died today.
Also, a 90-year-old woman from Panzgam Kupwara having underling ailments such as “HTN, CKD and encephalopathy besides bilateral community acquired pneumonia” died at SKIMS, six days after she was admitted to the tertiary care hospital.
The Srinagar fatalities, they said, include a 65-year-old woman from Khanyar who was suffering from hypertension, hypothyroidism, besides severe bilateral pneumonia, a 62-year-old woman from Eidgah and an elderly from Lal Bazar “who was a known case of hypertension” and died at around 7:30 a.m. today, nine days after being admitted to SKIMS.
A 70-year-old woman from Rafiabad Baramulla who was having “HTN, and bilateral pneumonia” died at SMHS hospital where elderly woman from Mazhama Budgam besides two residents from Pulwama—an eldely man from Baygund Tral and 50-year-old woman from Drabgam—also succumbed, official sources said. “All these patients had bilateral pneumonia and other ailments,” they added.
A 45-year-old man from Shalabug Ganderbal who was admitted hospitalized on August also succumbed to the virus, they added.
With these deaths, officials said, 512 people have succumbed to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir so far—473 from the Valley and 39 from Jammu division. Srinagar district with 163 deaths tops the list followed by Baramulla (86), Budgam (38), Anantnag (36), Kulgam (31), Pulwama (35), Kupwara (32), Shopian (24), Jammu (27), Bandipora (19), Ganderbal (11), two each in Rajouri, Doda and Udhampur besides one each in Ramban, Samba, Poonch, and Kathua.
