Covid hospital loses principal to virus – Times of India

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Kolkata: Bengal lost a senior health official, who was heading a medical college, to Covid-19 on Thursday. Hasi Dasgupta, 57, principal of the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital (CMSDH) — who had attended work till Tuesday — died at Medical College Hospital Kolkata (MCHK), a day after she was diagnosed with Covid. The medical college has a 500 bedded-Covid facility.
According to sources, Dasgupta was admitted at CMSDH on Wednesday morning with complaints of fever and respiratory distress. Despite a team of doctors cushioning around her at the medical college she headed, her oxygen saturation kept dropping alarmingly, plunging below 80%. A known diabetic patient, doctors decided to shift her to MCHK where she was admitted at the critical care unit.
“She was shifted to MCHK on Wednesday evening which is a tertiary level Covid hospital where she could get the attention of all specialists including cardiologists, nephrologists and neurologists. Despite all our effort we lost her,” said a senior health department official. Dasgupta passed away on Thursday evening.
Sources said the she had been suffering from a mild fever for a few days. On Wednesday, she came all the way to the hospital from her Golf Green residence along with her husband Dinen Saha, also a doctor. Both tested positive to the infection. Saha, who is attached with the radiology department at SSKM Hospital is now undergoing treatment for Covid at MCHK. Sources said he is stable and does not need any critical care support.
“She was thoroughly professional and very committed to her work. She was also extremely popular with students. We are shocked and saddened to lose such a warm human being,” said Manas Gumta, head of general surgery at COMSDH.
After passing her MBBS from Calcutta National Medical College, Dasgupta pursued her post-graduation in anatomy from Aligarh Muslim University. She taught at various medical colleges and was appointed as medical superintendent and vice principal of NRS Medical College before she was promoted as the principal at CMSDH. On Tuesday, she had worked for more than eight hours in the hospital despite feeling unwell.
“In addition to her thorough knowledge of anatomy, she was calm, collected and a loving person who could be tough with people without raising her voice,” said Shib Shankar Banerjee, who teaches anatomy at Murshidabad Medical College.
Bengal during this pandemic Bengal has lost close to 70 doctors to Covid-19 infection.

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