Post-COVID complications aplenty, say doctors

Many patients are returning with lung-related issues

As in the first wave of COVID-19, hospitals are seeing a steady flow of patients with post-COVID-19 complications. While the number of patients with complications is much higher, considering the exponential rise in cases in the second wave, many of them are returning to hospitals with psychological symptoms, lung-related complications, and stroke and cardiac arrest due to blood clots. The complications are aplenty, according to a number of doctors at government and private hospitals. While mucormycosis is one of the main complications seen by doctors, there are many other worrying trends. At the post-COVID clinic of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, doctors are receiving 30-40 patients a day, Dean E. Theranirajan said. “There are many with psychological issues. We see patients with insomnia, new onset diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung fibrosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, brain fog and depression. Some show symptoms of memory loss and poor concentration. There are patients mainly with neuro and cardiac complications.”