Insight Bureau: Just a couple of weeks after free ECMO services inaugurated at the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, the hospital reported its first ECMO death yesterday.
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Jagannath Pradhan (32) from Pattamundai in Kendrapada district, became the first ECMO patient to die due to Covid-19 complications.
Jagannath was being treated for Covid-19 for long. He was shifted to ECMO suport on August 29. However, he died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday afternoon.
Two more patients are under ECMO treatment at the SCB, Cuttack. SCB got 9 ECMO Machines on August 27, 2021.
