Bhopal: A nurse in Madhya Pradesh, Prafullit Peter, has survived COVID-19 after successfully battling the disease despite having only one lung. She recovered in fourteen days.
Sources said that the nurse, who was undergoing treatment at the Tikamgarh Civil Hospital, in Madhya Pradesh had lost one of the lungs in her childhood. After an accident in her childhood, she was operated upon and her lung was removed.
As per the sources, the 39-year-old nurse came to know of the condition only in 2014 when she underwent a chest X-ray.
The nurse was posted in the COVID ward at the Tikamgarh hospital when she caught the infection. After testing positive for COVID, many people were worried that the battle would be particularly hard for her. However, staying in home isolation for fourteen days, the nurse recovered from the virus.
She said that after the recovery, she did not lose courage while staying in home isolation and would regularly do yoga, pranayama, breathing exercises and also inflating balloons to help her lung.
She also took both jabs of the COVID vaccine and was confident that she would survive the disease.
One of the good news is that in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district, 226 gram panchayats have reported zero COVID case since the outbreak of the pandemic. The villagers have even sealed their entrance and have been wearing face masks as well as maintaining social distancing norms. Those people found violating COVID protocols are also being penalised.
According to the district's panchayat office, the gram panchayats in Jabalpur without a single COVID positive case constitutes 42 from Jabalpur district, 18 from Panagar, 11 in Patan, 46 each in Shahpura and Kundam, 29 in Sehore, 34 gram panchayats of Majhauli.
On Wednesday, India has reported 3.62 lakh cases of the COVID-19 with 4,120 deaths on the same day and active cases have increased to 37.10 lakh.
In Madhya Pradesh, 7,00,202 people are affected so far. 5,83,595 have recovered, 6679 patients have died, and 1,09,928 patients are still in hospital and recovering.