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Brendan Dabhi
@BrendanDabhi
Journalist @IndianExpress | Health, Human Rights, Disasters | Ex @ahmedabadmirror , @dna | Project Siren Award 2023
Sep 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
After 15-y-o son, his father becomes 17th casualty in mystery outbreak that has caused grief in the remote border villages of Kutch district in Gujarat.

Our detailed breakdown on clinical symptoms of patients, the social determinants & which deadly diseases have been ruled out. Image Even as the Gujarat government maintains the outbreak doesn't appear contagious, not only has the death toll risen to 17, experts in Kutch have found at least two household clusters but say it is too early to say whether the outbreak is infectious or not.

indianexpress.com/article/cities…
Jun 13, 2021 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
Many experts say the third #COVID19 wave may not be as deadly to children as is being hyped. They may be right, so what?

What's happening is that years of pending upgrades of pediatric systems are being completed now 'cause nobody wants dead kids on their hands.

A Thread.

1/n Pediatricians in tertiary hospitals have for years, been complaining about the lack of staff doctors, nurses with PICU/NICU training, neonatal ventilators _ the fact that children on the brink of death keep getting sent to them w/o being stabilised.

Things could change now.

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Jun 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 7 min read
Alert🚨 Drop in #Mucormycosis cases in #Gujarat

For the first time since fungal infections ran rampant in Gujarat during the 2nd #Covid wave, there is a visible drop in the no. of patients in eight major govt hospitals of Guj.

June 2: 1,940
June 6: 1,982 🔼
June 10: 1,866🔽 Image Caveat: While drop in the number of #Mucormycosis patients in major govt hospitals of #Gujarat is indeed good news, we must take into account that not all hospitals have seen this drop, a few have even seen cases rising. Still no data from pvt hospitals.

More tomorrow morning.
May 21, 2021 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
#Gujarat declared #Mucormycosis an epidemic and made it a notifiable disease on May 20, but...

This should've been done much, much earlier and still, gaps remain.

A Thread. Centre says Health is a state subject & yet, #Gujarat the state burdened most with #Mucormycosis in India, waited for an appeal from the GoI before deeming it an epidemic & making it notifiable.

Rajasthan, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha & Haryana did this before the letter.

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