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Doctors highlight how Covid variants, mental health took centrestage in 2022
Updated On: 31 December, 2022 02:56 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
Over two years after the Covid pandemic, Mumbaikars are still reeling from its effects and that was seen in its many variants starting with Omicron. It also resulted in a burden on the healthcare system, while the city was simultaneously dealing with children getting sick from measles and HFMD disease
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This year started with Omicron and then a spurt in cases of dengue, leptospirosis and hand foot mouth disease. Image for representational purpose only. Photo Courtesy: istock
This year has been quite a mixed bag for people around the city as far as health is concerned. Living amid the Covid-19 pandemic has created a lot of health issues for many people and the many variants starting with Omicron earlier this year haven’t helped either. Dr Tanu Singhal consultant, paediatrics and infectious diseases, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, believes that while Omicron took over in the first half of the year, there is a particular age group that has been most affected by illnesses this year.
“The biggest burden of illnesses this year has been in children, especially those below the age of 5 years. They have suffered frequent respiratory viral infections almost every two weeks once they started going to school and day care,” she adds. This, she says, is due to multiple factors. “One is the circulation of many viruses which took up the niche emptied by the COVID virus. Secondly, children were at home for the past two years and not exposed to infections thus lacked immunity. The increase in allergies due to increasing pollution also contributed to increased infections,” she adds.
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