Mrs S. Kaur – a 53-year-old lady from Malerkotla was in a difficult situation. She developed a severe infection on a heart valve which got complicated with heart and kidney failure and sepsis. She was admitted in a hospital in Ludhiana and referred from there to Dr Harinder Singh Bedi – Director of Cardio Vascular Sciences at the prestigious Ivy Hospital Mohali Punjab . Dr. Bedi realized that the condition carried a very high death rate if untreated.
In these times elective surgeries are not being done to conserve resources for Covid patients. But dire emergencies need to be done. Dr Bedi who has seen such cases in Australia where he has worked earlier knew that this case could not be postponed at all as the heart failure was worsening. To make matters worse she went into a heart bock – a known complication of endocarditis. The whole cardiac staff came as soon as possible even in these…
