A coronavirus-infected patient undergoing treatment at Jorhat Medical College Hospital (JMCH), who was administered the new 2-DG (2-Deoxy-D-Glucose), expired late on Sunday night due to post-Covid complications.
2-DG is a Covid-19 medicine developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
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The patient, a young male had been administered the drug in an individual capacity and was the first person in the state on whom the 2-DG was administered as a special case.
The drug had been accessed by the patient’s uncle, a senior scientist working at the DRDO, Hyderabad, who had requested for administering the new drug 2-DG.
He had also procured the drug by himself and had dispatched it to JMCH.
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Dr. Purnima Baruah, Superintendent of JMCH, confirmed that the patient who had been administered the drug since May 22 had tested RT-PCR negative after the completion of the doses and was shifted to the general ICU from Covid ICU.
However, the patient died late on Sunday night due to post-Covid complications.