: During the Omicron wave in Mumbai, trusted family doctors were on the frontlines of the surge #IndiaNEWS In January, 68-year-old Bharatkumar Desai, a general physician, sat in his clinic no bigger

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During the Omicron wave in Mumbai, trusted family doctors were on the frontlines of the surge #IndiaNEWS
In January, 68-year-old Bharatkumar Desai, a general physician, sat in his clinic no bigger than a small mom-and-pop retail store, with a stethoscope around his neck, in Mumbai’s north-western suburb of Kandivali. It was no ordinary month – nearly 185 patients had come in on one day of January, most with flu-like symptoms. But the bespectacled doctor knew that for many, this was not the flu, but Covid-19.The pandemic was raging in Mumbai – at the peak, over 20,000 new cases had been detected in a single day. And it was the family doctors, the trusted general physicians, who were at the forefront of this deluge of cases, armed with the humble and ubiquitous paracetamol. They were aided by the large scale vaccination programme, which reduced the severity of the disease and the possibly milder Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.“These patients know me for years, I cannot abandon them,�? Desai, who has diabetes and hypertension and has undergone a bypass surgery, would say when his family chided him for putting his patients’ health over his own. Desai said he treated an average of 130-140 patients every day between January 1 and January 8. He received his precaution dose, the third one of a Covid-19 vaccine, in the...Read more

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