Children who have fully recovered from Covid in India are battling a rare and dangerous infection.
This month, four children were admitted separately to a hospital in the central Indian state of Maharashtra with symptoms of breathlessness and falling blood pressure.
At the Kasturba Hospital, two of the sick children have recovered, while the other two are being treated in intensive care. "I would worry about this condition. We simply don't know how deep this problem is. It is worrisome we still don't have data on the burden of this disease in India," Dr SP Kalantri, medical superintendent of the hospital, said.
In Solapur, a small town in Maharashtra, fellow paediatrician Dr Dayanand Nakate, has dealt with up to 20 patients, mostly between 10 and 15 years old, in the past month. Last fortnight the Maharashtra government made MIS-C a "notifiable disease", required by law to be reported to authorities. Some symptoms are similar to Kawasaki disease, another rare condition that mainly affects children under the age of five. "The syndrome is really a spectrum of conditions from mild Kawasaki-like disease to multi-organ failure," according to Dr Jhuma Sankar, an associate professor of paediatrics at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences .
Worryingly, 90% of the children Dr Gupta's hospital treated for the condition had contracted Covid-19 without showing any symptoms, he said. He said the children became sick with the inflammatory syndrome two to six weeks after recovery.
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