Zafrullah recovering
Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury is gradually recovering from pneumonia, an official of the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital said yesterday.
"The severe lungs pneumonia of Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury is being cured slowly and his amount of oxygen intake is decreasing," Brig Gen (retd) Professor Mamun Mustafi, a physician at the hospital, told The Daily Star.
Mustafi said that Dr Zafrullah is being given regular dialysis, measured antibiotics and physiotherapy.
"He [Dr Zafrullah] has thanked everybody and asked everyone to pray for him," Prof Mustafi added.
Mohammad Forhad, public relations officer of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, told The Daily Star, "After waking up today [Thursday], Dr Zafrullah walked inside the room for a while and had breakfast by himself. [His] physical condition seems better than yesterday."
Dr Zafrullah tested positive for Covid-19 on May 25 through a test using rapid testing kit-- GR Rapid Dot Blot, which was invented by the researchers at the Gonoshasthaya Kendra.
Since then, he has been under treatment at the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital. He has undergone plasma therapy thrice.
Later, he tested positive for Covid-19 in rt-PCR test at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
The 79-year old physician is a kidney patient and has been undergoing dialysis and also has a pre-existing lung problem.
For nearly three months, Dr Zafrullah and a team of scientists have been working on the Gonoshasthaya Kendra-developed rapid coronavirus test kit -- GR Rapid Dot Blot – trying to get it approved.
He has been calling for emergency authorisation of the kit for large-scale tests and isolation of the new coronavirus patients -- the best way to check its spread.
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