Incidence of paralytic strokes cases increase in Chennai during coronavirus pandemic!
Posted on: 19/Nov/2020 1:51:35 PM
According to a press release from the Apollo Hospitals, the rate of incidence of paralytic stroke has recorded a surge in Chennai during the current periods of the raging Coronavirus Pandemic,!
Apollo Hospitals� notification stated further that its OMR facility saved more than 250 patients between 20 and 80 years of age, from paralysis caused due to Stroke within a span of eleven months since January 2020.
Added stress due to extended lockdown has also been considered as a contributing factor in stroke among young people.
The Indian Stroke Association has observed on this development:
�17 million people suffer a stroke each year of which six million dies and five million remain permanently disabled. Additionally, 80 per cent of stroke deaths occur in lower- and middle-income countries including India due to inadequate preventive and stroke management facilities. Stroke cases have surged due to various factors including sedentary lifestyle, hypertension, smoking and obesity during this pandemic.�
The Indian Strokes Association added further:
�Apollo Specialty Hospitals, OMR receive more than 250 stroke patients in the past eleven months and most of them are under 40 years of age.�
