Many in Prakasam face post-recovery issues

‘Some of them need joint treatment by specialists’

It is a new lease of life for lawyer Sripathi Prakasam, who has been fortunate to recover from the dreaded coronavirus. But his neighbour R. Venkateswara Rao, a yoga practitioner, was not so fortunate as he succumbed to the viral disease after undergoing oxygen therapy for almost a month following a severe lung infection. The latter, who had been teaching Pranayamam to students, had even taken two doses of the vaccine. Yet he contracted COVID-19 and succumbed to it, recalls his brother R. Subramanyam, a school teacher. The same was the fate of a sales executive G. Venkataramana Rao, who got infected days after taking the jab and spent about a month in the intensive care unit of a private hospital before losing the battle against the disease. He also suffered from a comorbidity, recalls his widow Padmavati. Mr. Prakasam, who also suffers from a comorbidity, says early treatment helped him stage a recovery. "Even now I have difficulty in breathing and experience fatigue frequently," he says after a morning walk.