PANAJI: Goa Medical College (GMC) has reported 14 cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MISC) in the past two months, including one death.
These cases also include those called two district hospitals and private hospitals.
MIS-C is related to Covid-19 and can develop in children between two and four weeks after infection, and in some cases six weeks later.
“We have six cases in May and nine in June and there is one death.
Other patients recover and go home.
The girl who died after developing a five-year-old Mis-C.
He was taken to GMC in the critical stage,” said the Pediatric Department’s head GMC, said Dr.
Maria Silveira.
The increase in MIS-C expected Goa to witness a large increase in Covid infection since April, touching the peak in May.
The Head of the Pediatric Department in Hospicio, Dr.
Ira Almeida said that since MIS-C developed within two to six weeks after Covid infection, and because of its peak in May, there were several cases in June.
But this month, Almeida said that he had not seen any case.
“Hopefully, there will be no now, but those who have Covid at the end of June or this month, must be careful,” Almeida said.
In June, he had referred to two cases of Mis-C to GMC.
Because Covid cases tend to be more among children during the third wave estimated, a month ago, the country began preparation to treat pediatric cases.
The process for regulating neonatal intensive care units is taking place in the super-special GMC block, said Silveira.
“Most things already exist, but we haven’t started using new facilities and managing from GMC,” Silveira said.
Dr Harshad Kamat’s doctor said that after the second wave subsided, he saw four cases in the age group of five to 16 years.
“The four recovered after treatment.
The 16-year-old was in the ICU, but he also improved and went home,” Kamat said.
A senior pediatrician Dr.
Shivanand dresses said that most cases tend to be referred to GMC because the drug used for the treatment of MIS-C-IVIG – expensive.
“Even if a child weighs 20 kg, IVIG costs will reach around Rs 80,000 to Rs 1 Lakh.
Most parents cannot afford so much.
Private practitioners refer to cases to GMC,” said the dress.