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MUMBAI: A Boisar woman was arrested for allegedly killing her husband who was jobless following the lockdown. When Arun Maurya (29), a technician in a Goregaon factory, vomited blood on May 18, Kavita (22) called neighbours and took him to hospital, where he died.
Boisar MIDC police registered an accidental case after Kavita told them that he was unwell for some days. But the autopsy report revealed he had died of injuries on his abdomen. When police seized Arun's cellphone, they found video clips of her assaulting him since May 14.
Kavita used to torture him mentally for being jobless and accused him of having extra-marital affairs. Arun kept his phone video on and left it on the window on May 14.
Kavita's assaults since then, including on May 18, when he died, were all recorded.

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MUMBAI: The state’s recovery rate for Covid-19 patients has not shown any remarkable jump nearly ten days after a new discharge policy was adopted. As of Wednesday, merely 26% of the patients had recovered and gone home in the state on average. It was 27% for Mumbai. The rates are way below the national average of 40%. Prior to the policy change, the state average was 19%. Experts say the voluminous and rapid rise in Mumbai’s cases could be negatively impacting the state’s overall recovery rate.
Tamil Nadu, which has reported around 12,450 cases, the second highest in the country after Maharashtra, has a recovery rate of 39%. Neighbouring Gujarat, with over 12,000 cases, has reached a rate of 42%. Kerala, with 642 cases and 497 recoveries, has been at the top of the chart with a recovery rate of 77%. Maharashtra’s rate had stagnated at 12% for most of April. It rose to 16% in the beginning of May and then to 19% on May 10, the day the new discharge policy was announced. After that, it has hovered around 25-26%.

On May 9, the Union health ministry said mild and moderate cases do not need to be tested before discharge. Till then, patients had to test negative twice. The revised policy was meant to free up beds and reduce the burden on labs. "Why the recovery rate is not going up in Maharashtra is a mystery. It only reflects that the average time of hospital stay has not reduced much," said a member of the state task force. "But as long as the mortality rate is under control, there is no point losing sleep over the recovery rate."
Health minister Rajesh Tope said the new policy, laid down by ICMR, has indeed helped free beds. He said that in places like Malegaon, with rapidly increasing cases, the recovery rate is 53%. In Palghar, it’s 80% (54 recovered out of 67 patients). "We have also been able to focus on detecting new cases, rather than testing those already hospitalised," said Tope.
For Mumbai, a civic official said recovery numbers may not seem more as fresh daily detections are too high. "Also, the new discharge policy is being implemented keeping local factors in mind. Since there are many cases from slums in Mumbai, we are taking extra precautions for discharging," said a civic official.
Dr Anup K Yadav, commissioner, National Health Mission, said the average duration of hospitalisation is now 7-8 days. "Previously, we kept patients for 14 days and then their two negative reports took two days more. So, in all, a person used to spend upto 16 days in hospital but that's changed now," he said. "We are also testing more symptomatic patients now and hence that could be translating into slightly prolonged hospital stay."

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MUMBAI: Doctors at the state-run JJ Hospital in Byculla have been getting a strange request from patients coming in with fractures to the casualty these days. "They want conservative treatment: just a plaster or splint and strictly no surgery," said a senior doctor about the stream of non-Covid patients trickling into the hospital.
The Covid-19 scare has changed hospital visits for many: people want to step out as quickly as they can. Also, heart attacks, road accidents or strokes don’t seem to dominate as the main reason for hospital visits. In the Covid and lockdown era, doctors say fractures, fall injuries and anxiety attacks are emerging as the most common reasons.
"Domestic injuries, especially among senior citizens, have registered a rise," said Dr Santosh Shetty, CEO of Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Andheri. With house-help away, senior citizens who live alone have to take up household chores. "We believe this could be the reason for the falls," said Dr Shetty, adding that patients with heart attacks and strokes too come into the casualty, but not in the same number as before the Covid-19 outbreak.
Many anxious about catching flu, say they feel ‘feverish’
As nursing homes and specialty clinics where patients could, in pre-Covid days, rush with broken bones or cuts are shut, big hospitals are seeing a rise in ‘tiny’ emergencies—be it toothaches or minor fractures. Almost half the patients coming to the casualty department at Jaslok Hospital on Pedder Road, for instance, seek help for trauma, fall, dog bites or minor injuries.
Anxiety is another big driver. Dr Nitin Jagasia, who heads the ER (emergency room) in Apollo Hospital, Nerul, said, "On an average, we get two or three patients every day who seem to be suffering from some kind of anxiety." They either have "throat pain" or are feeling "feverish." Dr Jagasia said the patients are counselled, tested and feel better.
A doctor from Jaslok Hospital said many patients come with complaints of cough, cold and fever as they are "anxious about catching the flu."
In Sion Hospital, where Covid-19 has taken over as the main issue although the civic hospital was supposed to be a non-Covid centre, the emergency room is busy. "We get heart attacks, women in labour as well as fractures, both minor and major," said Sion Hospital dean Dr Ramesh Bharmal. As Covid-19 is the chief concern, most of these hospitals refused to give numbers as far as patients coming in with non-Covid complaints is concerned.
Incidentally, while the ‘disappearance’ of heart attack patients from hospitals (due to the Covid-19 scare) has doctors across the world worried, doctors here seem relieved with the disappearance of another type of patient. "Many ERs get a number of patients with non-specific complaints such as chest pain for 15 days, bloating or headaches. These could be real or imaginary problems," said Dr Jagasia from Apollo. "With Covid-19, visits from this group of patients have fallen drastically. For every 100 such patients previously, the number is down to 50."

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