Hospitals grapple with post-Covid admissions, plan to add dedicated ICUs

While post-Covid patients are contributing to the footfall, there is also a pick-up in non-Covid treatment.

Eighteen-year-old Abdullah from New Delhi’s Chandni Chowk was suffering from breathlessness. He was rushed to Sir Gangaram Hospital after he became unconscious. While the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for Covid came negative, he was found to have unusually high antibodies. Doctors suspected post-Covid cardiac complication — myocarditis — and found his heart had started to pack up.
 
Long Covid has been described as a range of symptoms such as fatigue, headache, loss of smell, dizziness, chest pain, fever, depression that Covid-19 pat­ients may experience up to 12 weeks after recovery. Doctors also say symptoms such as palpitations