City’s first corona patient discharged

Kanpur: A 70-year-old man, who had returned from the United States, and who was the city's first coronavirus patient being treated at the Ursula Horseman hospital, was discharged on Monday.

The decision to discharge him was taken by the hospital’s chief medical superintendent Dr Shailesh Tiwari and district pandemic scientist Dr Deo Singh, after they found his report negative for the second time, said chief medical officer Dr Ashok Shukla.

The 70-year-old had been undergoing treatment in isolation ward of the Ursula Horseman Hospital since his return from the United States last month.

"The health condition of the elderly patient was satisfactory. The first test result of his throat and nasal swab sample, sent to the KGMU in Lucknow on April 1, was declared negative on April 2. Similarly, the second sample which was sent on April 3 to the SGPGI, Lucknow, was also declared negative on April 4," the CMO said.

Profusely thanking the entire medical staff, the patient said that he was thankful to the doctors and the entire medical staff who had taken good care of him.

"I was very tense during the treatment but the doctors and the para medical staff counselled me tactfully. I do not have words to express my gratitude to the staff who extracted me from the clutches of the deadly virus", the patient said.

The US-returned man was admitted to the Ursula hospital's isolation ward on March 23 and the tests later confirmed that he had contracted the virus.