Raised Concerns By Doctors Over The New COVID-19 Symptoms

Doctors have raised concerns over new symptoms seen in Covid-19 patients.

According to the Chief Medical Officer of Nairobi West Hospital Dr. Andrew Gachie, patients with the new symptoms are taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as soon as they are admitted at the health facility.

“One of the things we have noticed is that the majority of patients are coming in with difficulty in breathing with no fever or anything, and by the time they are admitted quite a majority of them will require intensive care,” he said.

Fresh reports from Kenyatta National Hospital indicate patients are showing symptoms that differ from the ones that the World Health Organization (WHO) had earlier advised doctors to look out for when diagnosing patients.

“Some rare symptoms we have seen are for example diarrhoea, vomiting, headache, and occasionally a rash. We haven’t seen discoloration too commonly but it might be because of the affecting of the vessels by Covid-19 which forms clots,” said Dr. Loise Ombajo, Infectious Disease Specialist at KNH.

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