Nearly 50 percent patients at Rajdhani Covid-19 Hospital SGPGIMS have been found to have diabetes as the co-morbid condition.
According to Prof R.K. Singh, medical superintendent (RCH), “Diabetes is the commonest comorbidity seen in patients at our centre, followed by hypertension. Patients with organ dysfunction, particularly lungs and kidneys, form the next big chunk.”
The pattern speaks for a national trend observed by the Union ministry of health and family welfare, which has come up with specific guidelines for management of Covid-19 patients having a history of diabetes.
“Diabetes affects each part of the body in different degrees and ways. Therefore, when the body is under attack by any infection, Covid-19 in this case, the management is as challenging as filling water in a bucket with several holes,” he said.
