Dubai-based expat emergency doctor beats COVID-19, pens book on unique therapy

  • Date: 27-Feb-2021
  • Source: Gulf News
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:UAE
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Dubai-based expat emergency doctor beats COVID-19, pens book on unique therapy

Dubai: A Dubai-based emergency medicine doctor, who had COVID-19, has come out with a book to talk about his journey - and a scientific parallel therapy he came up with. Pakistani expatriate, Dr Ghulam Yasin Naroo, a veteran Consultant Emergency Medicine at a public hospital in Dubai, contracted COVID-19 in the first week of April and successfully battled it through the entire month. His book 'Four Weeks through COVID-19 as a physician and as a patient' dwells on what he calls Near to Nature (N2N), a therapy which he claims helped him avoid the ventilator and recover rapidly. The book also goes into his learnings during the challenging illness and celebrates family and community support that helped him battle through the dark days. Dr Naroo, 58, published a medical paper in the Scholink Communication, Society and Media Journal in the United States in November 2020. The paper titled 'N2N Therapy for COVID-19 Intervention for Effective Clinical Outcome, a Case Study' chronicles his own clinical outcomes and evaluations based on empirical results. HAving treated several COVID positive patients, Dr Naroo said he too contracted the virus and fell seriously ill. Within days of his positive report, a chest X-ray confirmed that