BMC to monitor slum dwellers with hypertension and diabetes – Mumbai Mirror

Officials say 16 of the 20 people who died on Thursday had comorbidities.

After 20 people succumbed to Covid-19 on Thursday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation decided to monitor slum dwellers with a medical history of hypertension and diabetes. Sixteen of the 20 deceased suffered from ailments including diabetes and hypertension.

Officials said five of the people who died of the virus on Friday also had comorbidities. Comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional conditions co-occurring with a primary condition.

G-South assistant commissioner Sharad Ughade said they are monitoring those with such medical conditions. We have conducted a survey and segregated 25 such people with comorbidities and kept them under a watch, Ughade said.

The G-South ward includes Worli Koliwada, which has been categorised as a virus hotspot.

In G North ward of Dadar, Mahim and Dharavi, assistant commissioner Kiran Dighavkar is segregating slum dwellers with comorbidities as well as those with low oxygen saturation.

We have found eight people in slums whose oxygen levels was below 90 and we have admitted them in a hospital for monitoring, Dighavkar said. The average oxygen saturation levels of a healthy person ranges between 95 to 99.

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