Covid-19: UAE doctors getting better at treating coronavirus patients

  • Date: 06-Oct-2020
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:UAE
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Covid-19: UAE doctors getting better at treating coronavirus patients

UAE - Covid-19 patients now have a "greater" chance of survival compared to what it was six months ago, doctors in the UAE have revealed, as they explained how treatments have improved.Though a spike in new cases has been observed, the UAE has also been reporting record-high recoveries in its recent daily Covid-19 tallies.Initially, ventilators were believed to be the best way to save a critically ill Covid-19 patient, but the specialists later found that these were not enough, Dr Siddiqui said as he explained some new findings."It was thought that Covid death happens due to lung infection, called pneumonia but, with time, we found that the virus causes clots in the blood vessels of the lungs and other parts of the body and this causes the reduced oxygenation. Just