Man with 100% lung involvement slays Covid

  • | Saturday | 29th May, 2021

After he tested Covid-19 positive on May 3, Shaikh took treatment in a local hospital in Bharuch. His mother and father Imtiyaz had also tested positive but his father recovered with home-based treatment.

After 20 days of hospitalization, a 35-year-old man with 100 % lung involvement, has beaten the deadly Covid-19. Irshad Shaikh, one of the rare patients to recover despite such high infection, returned home earlier this week.

Shaikh, an oil trader from Bharuch, had even lost his mother Ruksana, 55, to the deadly infection when he was critical in the hospital.

After he tested Covid-19 positive on May 3, Shaikh took treatment in a local hospital in Bharuch. His mother and father Imtiyaz had also tested positive but his father recovered with home-based treatment.

“We were all devastated when we came to know that three of my family members are infected. My mother and brother were critical and during treatment my mother died,” said Shaikh’s younger brother Ishraj.

“His condition was not improving after which he was shifted here. During CT-scan, we found that the infection is severe,” said Dr Bhavik Des


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