Tragic! 12-Year-Old MP Student Collapses In School Bus, Dies Of Cardiac Arrest
In a tragic incident, a Class IV student from Bhind in Madhya Pradesh died of cardiac arrest after he collapsed on his school bus.
According to the family, 12-year-old Manish Jatav had lunch with his brother at their school on Etawah Road Thursday afternoon and collapsed soon after boarding his bus at 2 pm.
Boy had no health issues
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors failed to revive him.
"Manish was brought dead to the hospital on Thursday afternoon. We gave him cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) but could not revive him. As per his symptoms, he died of cardiac failure," district hospital surgeon Dr Anil Goyal told PTI.
According to the doctors, he could be the state's youngest cardiac arrest victim.
What is shocking is that the boy did not have any visible health issues.
Parents decide against post mortem
The exact cause of the death may never be known, as the boy's parents decided against conducting a post-mortem.
But according to Dr Goyal, cases of sudden cardiac arrests have risen after COVID-19.
"Such incidents have risen after COVID-19 as per a study. It is possibly the first time someone this young has died of cardiac arrest in MP," he said.
2-year-old suffers cardiac arrest
In January this year, a 2-year-old boy from Delhi suffered cardiac arrest and a multiorgan failure after recovering from COVID-19 five months ago.
The boy who recovered from COVID-19 in August 2021 got a cold in December, which aggravated into a high fever. He was rushed to the private hospital as his condition worsened. The infant went into cardiac arrest minutes after arriving at the hospital and could only be saved after 30 minutes of CPR.
Increase in heart diseases after COVID
A study published in the Nature Journal in February this year said that there was a substantial rise in the risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a COVID-19 infection.
Researchers found that rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19 than in similar people who hadn't had the disease.
People who had recovered from COVID-19 showed stark increases in 20 cardiovascular problems over the year after infection.
The risk of heart failure increased by 72%, or around 12 more people in the COVID-19 group per 1,000 studied.?
"It doesn't matter if you are young or old, it doesn't matter if you smoked, or you didn't. The risk was there," co-author of the study Ziyad Al-Aly said.
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