{"id":1421,"date":"2021-08-03T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T11:55:09","slug":"battle-against-covid-centenarian-emerges-victorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"BATTLE AGAINST COVID: CENTENARIAN EMERGES VICTORIOUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amidst the corona virus induced gloom, a 100-year-old man treated at the SUM Covid Hospital has defeated the disease spreading cheer all around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Brundaban Samal, a resident of\nJharpada area of the city, was admitted into the hospital in a serious\ncondition on July 26 after testing positive for Covid-19 and was rushed into\nthe ICU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Doctors treating him found that he\nhad developed pneumonia and had difficulty in breathing. \u201cIt was a challenge to\ntreat such an old person who had a cyst in the kidney, but we did what we could\nunder the circumstances,\u201d the treating doctors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"879\" src=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/100-years-old-man-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1423\" data-link=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?attachment_id=1423\" class=\"wp-image-1423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/100-years-old-man-1.jpg 479w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/100-years-old-man-1-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Samal walked out of the hospital\non Tuesday with the family members being effusive in their praise of the\ntreatment provided to him. \u201cWe are thankful to the doctors, nurses and\nparamedics for the care they took of my grandfather,\u201d Mr. Alok Samal, his\ngrandson, said adding the nurses fed him with their own hands.\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Several\npersons in their 90\u2019s, who had been treated at the SUM Covid Hospital earlier,\nhad emerged victorious in the battle against the pandemic but Mr. Samal is the\nfirst centenarian to do so in the hospital.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the corona virus induced gloom, a 100-year-old man treated at the SUM Covid Hospital has defeated the disease spreading cheer all around. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Brundaban Samal, a resident of Jharpada area of the city, was admitted into the hospital in a serious condition on July 26 after testing positive for Covid-19 and was rushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}