When 60-year-old Milind Ketkar returned home after spending almost a month in hospital fighting Kovid-19, he felt the worst was over.
People had to take him to his third floor flat because there was no elevator in his building.
He spent the next few days experiencing constant shortness of breath and weakness. When he did not start to feel better, he was admitted to the PD Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. Lancelot approached Pinto, where he was treated.
Mr. Ketkar, who thought he had recovered from the virus, was in shock.
Dr Pinter Pinto called it an inflammation of the lungs due to Cofid-19, which gave him deep vein thrombosis, which occurs when blood clots form in the body, often in the legs.
Fragments can break and move the body into the lungs, blocking blood vessels and this can be fatal if not diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, Pin Pinto said.
Mr. Ketkar spent the next month confined to his flat, taking pills for his condition. "I was not able to move much. My leg was constantly injured and I was also struggling with daily chores. It was a nightmare."
He is still on medication, but he says he is on his way to recovery.
Mr. Ketkar is not alone in this - thousands of people around the world report post-cod health problems. Thrombosis is common - according to experts, it has been found in 30% of patients with seriously ill coronavirus.
These problems are commonly described as "long covid" or "long distance covid".
Awareness around post-covid care is crucial, but it is not centered in India, which is still struggling to control the spread of the virus. It has the second largest castle in the world and has averaged 90,000 cases per day in recent weeks.
Dr. Natalie Lambert, a research professor of medicine at Indiana University in the U.S., was one of the first to warn of the dangers that followed.
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She surveyed thousands of people on social media and noted that a very large number of them had complained about post-covid complications such as extreme fatigue, shortness of breath and hair loss.
U.S. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported its own survey results a few weeks later and acknowledged that at least% of those surveyed had not returned to their health status.
Post-covid complications are more common in people who are critically ill, but Dr. L. Lambert says the number of moderately ill patients is increasing - even those who did not need to be hospitalized.
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He says the long fatigue he has experienced makes him "extremely anxious".
Dr Gar Garner says he was "lucky" because his employers understand the problem and they don't have to worry about work.
But, not everyone has this option, especially working class people. “They have to go back to work to put food on the table,” he says.
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