Manipur reported its first death related to COVID-19 in a hospital in Imphal at 2 a.m. on Wednesday. This was formally announced by Ch. Arunkumar, medical superintendent, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, a Union Health Ministry undertaking. The 56-year-old patient was from Khongjom in Thoubal district.
He was admitted in the RIMS on July 22 with the complaint of chronic kidney failure, multiple drug resistance, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and respiratory tract infection. He was found to be COVID-19 positive on July 26, said the medical superintendent.
He further said that the cause of death was chronic kidney disease and other complications, including hypertension.
Sources said that a post-mortem would be done shortly and it would be known after that whether COVID-19 was also one of the causes of his death.
Some doctors and nurses and other employees of the RIMS had also contracted the infection recently.
