Meghalaya recorded a total of 450 COVID-19 cases with 397 active cases & 4 deaths

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SHILLONG: Meghalaya on Sunday recorded 32 new cases with the BSF accounting for 29 of these while three are civilians. So far, Meghalaya has 397 active cases and a total of 450 recorded COVID-19 cases, 49 recoveries and four deaths.

The district-wise break up of the cases are: East Khasi Hills: 343 cases (BSF: 268; Armed Forces: 14; and civilians: 61); Ri-Bhoi: 36; West Garo Hills: 11; East Jaintia Hills: 2; and one each from South West Garo Hills, East Garo Hills and North Garo Hills. A geologist and a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel died of COVID-19 in Meghalaya during the last 24 hours, informed Director of Health Services (MI), Dr Aman Warr.

The geologist, Banteilang R Syngai, died on Saturday night, while the BSF personnel, Nandeswar Deury, died in the wee hours of Sunday. Syngai was admitted at NEIGRIHMS on July 5 with complaints of pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.

"He had just returned from Kolkata on that day and was in a quarantine facility prior to his shifting to NEIGRIHMS. On evaluation in NEIGRIHMS, he was diagnosed as a case of acute calculus cholecystitis," the Director of Health Services said, adding that the patient's sample was also taken for RT-PCR which indicated positive for SARS-COV2.

He was shifted to the COVID-19 isolation ward and was conservatively managed. During his course of stay there , he developed diarrhea and acute kidney (AK) injury and was transferred to the COVID ICU for further management. Though his two samples taken on July 16 and 17 were negative; on July 18, he developed sudden onset respiratory failure, Dr War said.

"He was initially managed on non-invasive ventilation but did not improve and was subsequently incubated. His respiratory failure worsened; and he developed respiratory and cardiac arrest. CPR was given according to ACLS protocol but he could not be revived and was declared dead at 11:56 pm," Dr. Warr added.

As per report from NEIGRIHMS, while the immediate cause of his death is type 1 respiratory failure, the antecedent cause is COVID-19 and the contributing cause is acute calculus cholecystitis.

Dr. Warr also informed that the BSF jawan had a history of contact with a laboratory confirmed case of COVID-19. He developed symptoms suggestive of COVID-19; and was tested positive on July 4. He was also a known case of Type II diabetes. He was initially managed at the BSF Composite Hospital in Umpling but was referred to Civil Hospital, Shillong in view of his worsening breathlessness and persistent cough. He was then transferred to NEIGRIHMS on July 13 as he needed to be shifted to the ICU care due to his worsening symptoms. On his arrival in NEIGRIHMS he was managed in the COVID ICU, further informed Dr War.

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