A Srinagar man who had tested positive for COVID19 and was suffering from cancer died at CD Hospital Monday afternoon making it the tenth death due to viral illness in J&K.
Having lost his son to COVID19 on 06 May, the 60 year oldCOVID19 positive man from Alamgiri Bazar Srinagar breathed his last Mondayafternoon. Dr Naveed Nazir Shah, head department of pulmonology at GMC Srinagarand in-charge COVID19 at CD Hospital said the patient died of “sudden cardiacarrest”. He said the patient had stage-4 malignancy. “He had pancreaticcarcinoma with lung metastasis,” Dr Shah said. Dr Shah said the patient was”quite sick” and had fluid accumulation in his lungs.
Dr Shah said the patientwas “conscious and talking” just five minutes before his death.
The elderly man had beenshifted to CD Hospital from Super Specialty Hospital Shireen Bagh on 08 May,after his COVID19 test came positive. He was tested after the death of his 34year old son to COVID19 last week. The son had been attending to his ailingfather at Super Specialty Hospital and fell sick with flu like symptoms. He wasadmitted to SMHS Hospital and died a day later of “multiple organ failure”induced by inflammatory reaction caused by COVID19.
The death is the 10th one attributable to the respiratoryvirus in J&K. Nine of these have died in Kashmir.
The first death due to COVID19 took place on 26 March, aresident of Srinagar, who was buried in ancestral graveyard in Sopore. Thesecond death took place on 29 March. The patient was a resident of Tangmargwith no travel history as well. The third death took place on 07 April, thedeceased being a Bandipora resident whosesample tested positive after he passed away.
A day later, on 08 April,one woman passed away in Jammu. She also tested positive for COVID19posthumously. Her’s was the fourth death due to the virus in J&K. The fifthdeath took place on 17 April at JVC, the deceased a 70 year old man fromBaramulla. The sixth was also a Baramulla resident, and 70 year old and died onApril 25.
On the same day, a young woman from Anantnag who hadsuffered intra-uterine death of her twins died in Mother and Child HospitalAnantnag. Her sample later tested positive for COVID19 making her’s the seventhdeath due to the virus.
The eighth death had taken place at Chest Diseases Hospital– an 80 year old woman from Rainawari Srinagar.