Self-quarantine best solution to fight Coronavirus: Dr. Srinivas Kakkilaya
Mangaluru: Consultant Physician at Spandana Centre for Metabolic Medicine, Dr. Srinivas Kakkilaya in a Facebook post predicted that the Coronavirus cases are like to increase substantially over the next 3 – 6 weeks and will reach stage 3 and 4 despite best efforts to contain the infected persons and their contacts.
Dr. Kakkilaya stressed upon the need to set up special temporary hospitals at Taluka and District levels for COVID respiratory care and to train the necessary manpower in the next two weeks.
He also pressed on publicizing the importance of self-quarantine of the infected people while claiming that in 85% of the Corona Virus cases, patients will only need to self-quarantine themselves. He also added that these cases doesn’t need any testing or medicine and that the infection will be cured on its own if the patient self-quarantine themselves.
“Self-quarantine, no tests, no calls unless significantly ill, dedicated ambulances to carry the needy and establishment of temporary hospitals are the only measures that will be of help
“Self-quarantine of infected persons (85% of cases will need only this) must be publicized and promoted widely, so that people can understand the concept and co-operate. These cases do not need testing nor do they need medicines and the infection will get cured in a week on its own” Dr. Kakkilaya added in the post.
He also claimed that patients getting desperate and seeking medical attention and treatment from many doctors only risks to further spread the infection and was important that the patients remain in self-quarantine.
“If they go out and desperately seek treatment from many doctors and the so called AYUSH practitioners, they will only spread the disease, nothing else. Media have a big role to play in this regard” he added.
“Pressuring the govt for more tests is of not much benefit for anyone, instead, the pressure must be on establishing temporary hospitals for Covid Care. Hospital manpower must be trained immediately for Covid Care and ventilator use in ICUs. It's also necessary to have a dedicated ambulance service for carrying seriously ill COVID cases (mostly the elderly) so that public transport is not used by these infectious patients” the post further stated.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
