56-year-old woman with kidney ailment defeats coronavirus
A 56-year-old patient with a chronic kidney disease, recovered from Covid-19 after 26 days and was welcomed home on Thursday.
Residents of Omkar Rahiwasi Seva Sangh colony in Kalachowki greeted Nilima Zore with flowers when she returned from BYL Nair Hospital, where she’d been admitted after testing positive for Covid-19.
Zore’s husband is a retired employee of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited. The couple live with their daughter, son, daughter-in-law and ninemonth-old grand daughter.
Zore had an angioplasty in 2014 and has needed dialysis since 2018. She contracted Covid-19 in May.
“I would regularly take my mother for dialysis to Hinduja Hospital in a family friend’s private vehicle, but due to the lockdown, we took a taxi on May 8. The next day I had fever and the day after, my mother too developed symptoms. We immediately got tested for virus. My mother tested positive for Covid-19 on the third test while I tested positive in the second test,” said Ankita, Zore’s daughter.
On May 15, Zore was admitted to Nair Hospital, which also has a dialysis facility. Ankita was quarantined at a civic quarantine centre in the Saat Rasta area and later shifted to a Covid care centre at Nagpada for more treatment.
“On the first day in hospital, I thought that now I would never return home. But my family, society members supported me and the doctors too helped me gain confidence,” said Zore.
She was discharged on Thursday after she tested negative for Covid-19 on Wednesday.