Bhubaneswar : Amidst the coronavirus induced gloom, a 100-year-old man treated at the SUM Covid Hospital has defeated the disease spreading cheer all around.
Mr. Brundaban Samal, a resident of the Jharpada area of the city, was admitted into the hospital in
a serious condition on July 26 after testing positive for Covid-19 and was rushed into the ICU.
Doctors treating him found that he had developed pneumonia and had difficulty in breathing.
“It was a challenge to treat such an old person who had a cyst in the kidney, but we did what we
could under the circumstances,” the treating doctors said.
Mr. Samal walked out of the hospital today with the family members being effusive in their praise
of the treatment provided to him.
“We are thankful to the doctors, nurses and paramedics for the care they took of my grandfather,
said Alok Samal.
Several persons in their 90’s, who had been treated at the SUM Covid Hospital earlier, had
emerged victorious in the battle against the pandemic but Mr. Samal is the first centenarian to
do so in the hospital, SUM hospital sources said.
UNI
