As Rajasthan’s toll reaches 100, every fourth death is that of a cardiac patient

A deserted Film Colony market in Jaipur Walled City on Saturday, a day after 1pm tested positive here. (Express photo: Rohit Jain Paras)

A day after Rajasthan touched 100 Covid deaths, health officials said Saturday that nearly three in four people who died had comorbidities, and every fourth person was a cardiac patient.

At 26 percent, the comorbidity of heart disease accounted for the highest number of deaths for patients with comorbidities. 15 percent of these victims had diabetes, 13 percent had respiratory disease, and 6 percent had kidney disease.

11% of patients suffered from diseases such as AIDS, cancer, and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare condition in which the body’s immune system attacks peripheral nerves.

An audit of the first 100 deaths by the state health department said that at 2.86 percent, the death rate in Rajasthan was below the national average of 3.35 percent. On Saturday, these figures stood at 2.81 and 3.43, respectively.

129 cases emerged in Rajasthan on Saturday, bringing the number of cases in the state to 3,708. The number of deaths so far is 106. The highest number of new cases (51) was reported in Jaipur, followed by Udaipur (24), Ajmer (15), Jodhpur (11), Chittorgarh (10), Pali (5) , Churu (3), Jalore (3), Rajsamand (2) and one case each in Barmer, Dausa, Kota, Sawai Madhopur and Sirohi.

The 100th victim was a 60-year-old khanabadosh (nomad), admitted to Jawahar Lal Nehru hospital in Ajmer on May 5 and where he died on May 7, the health department said. The man was identified as a resident of the Ajmer railway station and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a lung disease that makes it difficult for the patient to breathe, authorities said.

At least one of the deceased, a 26-year-old woman who entered the PBM hospital in Bikaner on April 25 and died four days later, was pregnant.

According to the health audit, 71 of the 100 patients had comorbidities, and 54 percent of the deceased were between the ages of 51 and 70. Fourteen people were between 21 and 40 years old, 13 were between 41 and 50 years old, nine between 71 and 80, six between 81 and 90 and four were under 20 years old. Up to 70 percent of the dead were men.

Jaipur, which had 1,196 cases on Saturday, saw 52 of the 100 deaths, followed by Jodhpur (16) and Kota (10).

As of Saturday, a total of 1.59,157 samples had been collected in the state. Of the positive cases, 2,162 have been declared recovered, of which 1,895 have been discharged.

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