“Compared to last year, the emergency unit noticed a fall of 40% patients between March and July this year. If were having 1,000 patients in the emergency in 2019, the number got reduced by almost 50% this year,” said Mishra. Hospital data shows that in 2019, emergency cases, such as those of assault, poisoning, drug overdose, injury, renal issues and trauma, among others, were somewhere between 1,100- 1,300 between March and August 2019. According to him compared to 2019 (between March and July), there has been a 40-45% drop in the patients coming to the emergency. Kumar, however, said that they are also getting 40-50% cases of brain haemorrhage or brain strokes, although the numbers are still low.

Source: Hindustan Times August 17, 2020 18:22 UTC