Kerala govt buries information as Kasaragod’s Covid demise toll rises

Express News Service
KASARGOD: Of late, a number of Covid sufferers are dying within the Tata Trust-built hospital, stated well being officers on situation of anonymity. “Yesterday, three patients died. Two woman and one man, all aged above 70,” stated a physician on Thursday. But each day statements from the district medical officer (DMO) and the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) from Thiruvananthapuram are silent on the Covid deaths in Kasaragod.

At least 36 Covid-infected individuals have died within the district within the first six days of May, in keeping with well being officers. But the final time the federal government of Kerala’s dashboard was up to date with a demise from Kasaragod was on April 22. That day, the official assertion from DHS stated a 67-year-old male died of Covid. In April, DHS recorded 12 deaths from Kasaragod. Going by the Covid dashboard of DHS, 122 individuals died of Covid in Kasaragod.

The district medical officer stopped revealing the demise toll 4 months in the past. The final time he shared Covid fatality was on December 28, 2020, and the demise toll was 248.On January 4, the district medical officer began sharing the overall variety of sufferers contaminated by Covid since February 3, 2020, the overall variety of recovered sufferers, and the lively circumstances however overlooked the variety of Covid deaths.

According to the DMO’s assertion on January 4, the overall variety of infections was 24,392, the overall variety of recovered sufferers was 23,370 and the variety of lively circumstances was 768. Going by this information, 254 sufferers aren’t recorded beneath any class. A high well being official within the district stated “the missing patients” might be the variety of deaths within the district.So, between December 28 and January 4, six individuals succumbed to Covid.

By the identical interpretation, on Thursday (May 6), Kasaragod reported 1,158 circumstances of Covid, taking the overall variety of lively circumstances to 14,243. The DMO’s assertion on the day stated 53,244 individuals contracted Covid until date and 38,605 individuals recovered from the illness. According to this information, 396 sufferers aren’t recorded beneath any class. The variety of ‘missing’ sufferers on Wednesday was 376. 

The DHS dashboard says 38 individuals died of Covid in Kasaragod since January 1. If the DMO’s demise toll launched on December 28 is added to the DHS information, 286 individuals have died in Kasaragod of Covid, a demise fee of 0.54%. Yet the dashboard says solely 122 individuals have died of Covid, with a demise fee of 0.23%.When requested if the division was under-reporting or protecting up the deaths, officers stated it was a clerical delay in updating the web site.