In the wake of coronavirus, Mumbai hospitals which come under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have started using a new drug to treat patients who have been severely affected due to COVID-19.
According to a release by the municipal corporation, BMC medical college hospitals, Sion, Nair, KEM and Seven Hills have started using the Tocilizumab injection in order to improve the health conditions of the COVID-19 patients. The municipal corporation has claimed that the result has been encouraging.
So far, the drug has been used on approximately 40 patients affected with the coronavirus, patients who were severely ill. According to the BMC, encouraging results have been seen in more than 30 patients, with 14 patients having already recovered and discharged from the hospital. This medicine has helped improve the conditions of the patients and has prevented patients from being put on ventilators and hastened their recovery. The drug, Tocilizumab, which is an antibody, has been used based on the experiences of many physicians and hospitals world over.
Maharashtra with 23,401 confirmed COVID-19 cases is the worst-affected state in the country by the coronavirus. Gujrat follows a close second. However, 4,786 patients have also been cured and discharged as of Tuesday morning in Maharashtra, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Furthermore, the civic body has asserted that the new drug has improved the condition of patients, prevented patients from going on a ventilator and also aided in their recovery, fastening the process.
Meanwhile, the BMC has decided to pay an "encouragement allowance" to each employee who wraps the bodies of COVID-19 patients in plastic sheets. Usually, two people are required to wrap one body. This move was introduced by Iqbal Singh Chahal who took charge as the previous commissioner Pravin Pardeshi has been transferred to the Urban Development department as Additional Chief Secretary
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