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Mumbai Among World's Most Polluted Cities As AQI Worsens, Has Separate Respiratory Care Unit Amid Rise In Cases

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Moreover, as a consequence of the exacerbating AQI, the city was compelled to set up a dedicated바카라 웹사이트Intensive Respiratory Care Unit in a bid to attend to patients with respiratory issues.

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Acording to a report by NDTV, the Global Hospitals has set up a dedicated special respiratory ICU바카라 웹사이트in Central Mumbai's Parel.

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As per the report, when asked about the staus quo, Dr Prashant Borade, Director, Department of Critical Care, Global Hospitals said that, in the past few months, they have been seeing patients who are reporting breathlessness even after getting cured of a lung infection. These patients are then diagnosed with inflammation in their lungs or hyperacute airway diseases.

According to Dr. Borade, nearly 50%, or one in two, of all patients with such symptoms who are visiting the Outpatient Department are having to be admitted for at least one or two days. Almost 30% are needing admission to the ICU, he said, adding that cases of lung cancer are also rising.바카라 웹사이트

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