Mysuru: Most prasada tragedy patients recover

Only one patient is now on ventilator support and one in ICU and nine patients are being treated at seven different private hospitals. The man behind the success story, Chamarajnagar district health officer Dr K H Prasad, said, " Despite our best efforts we lost 17 patients, and we had given up hope on at least 25 others, but thanks to efforts by doctors at all private hospitals, they have survived." Dr Prasad had appointed a team experts to monitor the line of treatment at the private hospitals treating these patients. Most were poor devotees from remote villages, who had eaten the prasada at the Maramma temple in Sulvadi , Hanur taluk. Dr Prasad explained although 10 ventilators available in Kollegal taluk were used to immediately treat a few devotees, nine ventilator -fitted ambulances and 16 normal ambulances were used to later shift the rest to Mysuru. "But as only four of its 20 ventilators were available at KR hospital, it could treat only 30 patients, and the others had to be shifted to different private hospitals," he added. Dailyhunthttp://doodleordie.com/profile/peezeerkit