Kolkata: 52-year-old man wins battle against COVID-19 after spending a month on ventilation

The well known social worker, who is a resident of south Kolkata's Mudiali area, fell sick on Mar 29, days after returning from Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district, and he was admitted to AMRI hospital at Dhakuria.

He had tested positive for novel coronavirus and after 24 hours of admission, he was shifted on ventilation on Mar 30 with massive breathing difficulties as the senior man had reportedly developed severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Sources in the privately-run hospital said that the man's two test reports came negative on Apr 17 and 18, but he could not be moved out of the ventilation as the 52-year-old was still suffering from breathing trouble.

Since May 2, his health condition had started developing and on May 5, he was shifted to High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Finally on Friday (May 8) at around 4 pm, after undergoing treatment for nearly 40 days, he was discharged from the hospital.

He has been asked to stay in home quarantine for the next two weeks.

While he was returning home from the hospital, doctors, nurses and medical/non-medical staffers of the private health facility cheered him as this was the first case in India where a COVID-19 patient won the battle after spending such a record time on ventilation.