Patna: In a strange case, a 43-year-old man from Vaishali was tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time within two months of recovery from the first infection.
The patient was undergoing treatment at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) for post-covid complications because he was diagnosed with mukormycosis or black mushrooms on May-End.
According to the doctor at PMCH, patients from Vaishali were hospitalized on May 29 after he developed symptoms of mucatorcosis in his nose area.
“He underwent a small debridement (surgery to remove dead cells) on June 4 and before that reports of an antigen testing and RT-PCR that quickly came.
For the second round of Debridement, the swab sample was collected and the results were positive on July 5,” he said.
The hospital administration divert patients from Mukormycosis to Covid-19 Ward and Swab samples of all eight patients received in the environment sent for the exam.
According to the hospital administration, the patient went against medical advice on 5.
July Nodal officers for Covid-19 at PMCH Dr.
Ajay Arun said the results of the test antigen were positive.
“The RT-PCR test report is still awaited,” he added.
Dr.
Shaheen Zafar, Nodal Officer for mucormycosis at PMCH, said the swab sample of three patients, including Vaishali Man, was sent for tests on 5.
July was tested negatively.
Vaishali men shifted to the Covid ward on the same day from where he left, “he said.
Swab samples of around 35 health workers at the hospital, who come into contact with Vaishali men, have also been sent for the exam.
Patients, a contractual teacher, first tested Covid Positive on April 29 and at the house was quarantined.
At home, he took excess steroids.
As a result, the man signed a rare fungal infection, said the doctor.
Dr.
Sanjeev Kumar, Nodal Officer for Covid-19 in Aiims-Patna, said it was a rare case Occurs because there are less than 10% of opportunities to regain.
“It is possible that antibodies have not been produced in patients due to mild symptoms of the first infection,” he said.