GURUGRAM: Since April 2021, 31-year-old Anuradha, a market analyst, has been suffering from inflammatory bowel disease, but did not visit a hospital, afraid that she would catch a Covid infection. Now, she suffers from an auto-immune disease for which she will be on medicines for the rest of her life.
The two pandemic years have worsened existing ailments or added complications in many patients that doctors say they have been seeing because of treatment getting delayed either because healthcare facilities and professionals were preoccupied with Covid or the patients and their families did not want to risk exposure.
