Kerala Doctors’ 4-Drug Cocktail Is Doing Wonder In Treating COVID-19 Patients

At a Kerala hospital, doctors are treating COVID-19 patients who are going through the first stage of developing pneumonia using a four-drug cocktail. The combination of drugs is working wonder in saving these patients. Thus, doctors have confirmed that it could even be set as an international model for other doctors around the world.

To treat COVID-19 patients, doctors need to make an intensive observation as well as carrying out prompt tests. But with success cases at the Government Medical College, the combination of drugs is earning global recognition.

Top physicians recalled the case of Brian Lockwood, a British national who was treated at the hospital last month. The 57-year-old tourist was admitted to the hospital on March 15 just before he boarded a flight to Dubai.

Lockwood was then isolated at the hospital. After 17 days, he fully recovered.

In a statement from the National Health Mission, Dr. Jacob K Jacob and Dr. A Fathahudeen of GMC said that after Lockwood was brought to the hospital from the Nedumbassery’s Cochin International Airport, he showed no signs of serious sickness.

He only had a mild cough and low fever. Lockwood was a part of the group of British tourists who had come to Kerala on March 10 and took a trip to the scenic Munnar Hills.

The doctors then performed an X-Ray test on him. And once they saw the report, they sensed that there was something wrong. They then decided to carry out a CT scan, which proved decisive in the recovery of Lockwood. He became India’s first COVID-19 patient to undergo a CT scan.

Dr. Jacob, who is working at the Internal Medicine Department at GMC, talked about another milestone in the patient’s path to recovery.

On March 17, the doctors gave Lockwood a unique cocktail of four different medicines after the patient was having breathing trouble and needed respiratory support.

And within hours, Lockwood received a four-drug mix consisting of azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine, and two types of HIV anti-virus.

It is less likely for the treatment to have such a desired result on patients at the advanced stage of COVID-19. In the case of the British tourist, by the eighth day, his fever came down. And according to DR Fathuhudeen, that was the first noticeable sign that the patient was recovering.

The doctor also talked about the case of a 69-year-old who had previously died because of COVID at GMC on March 28. The Kochi resident already suffered from a heart problem and diabetes.

The man returned after a trip to Gulf where he got infected with the virus. After his condition got worse, he was admitted to the hospital.

The cab driver who had picked the man up from the airport also contracted the virus. However, the driver was at a young age. So after being treated at the hospital, he fully recovered from the disease. A patient can only be discharged if the results of two tests that are held 24 hours apart are negative.

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