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Tuesday, July 7, 2020 Dhul-Qa’da 16, 1441 AH Doha today: 320 - 420 READY, STEADY: Registered Nurse Emy Charlot ties on a gown before treating a critically ill patient in the Parkland Hospital Covid-19 Tactical Care Unit last month in Dallas. COVER STORY On the edge Inside a Texas hospital’s Covid-19 unit. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE Dil Bechara sees Sushant on a Kids learn classical dance online quest to fi nd his fairytale ending. to stave off isolation. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 7, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.19am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.51am Zuhr (noon) 11.40am Asr (afternoon) 3.04pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.30pm Isha (night) 8pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Fleabag while trying to cope with tragedy. 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Tuesday, July 7, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Pool-related health issues Pools can be a great place to relax on a hot summer day, and they provide great social and recreational entertainment. But there are many things to be mindful of regarding health and wellness Cryptosporidium infections are highly contagious and are one of the more common causes of infectious diarrhoea in humans. But there are ways protect yourself and your family from becoming ill. Inquire with your community pool about the cleaning schedule, any testing that is performed on the water, and whether there have been cases of Cryptosporidium or other infections reported from people who have recently used the pool. In addition to the risk of Cryptosporidium infection, you would want to avoid swimming in a pool that does not perform cleaning and water treatment regularly. Consider these other recommendations for avoiding infections from your community swimming pool: 1. Don’t swim or let your kids swim if they are sick and have diarrhoea. If they have been diagnosed with Crytosporidium they should wait two weeks after the diarrhoea has stopped before returning to the pool. The parasite has been detected in stool up to two weeks after diarrhoea has gotten better. 2. Rinse off in the shower before and after getting in the pool to remove germs on your body that could contaminate the water. 3. Remind your child to avoid swallowing water from the UNDER SUPERVISION: Before you send your children to the pool, make sure they know how to swim and will always be supervised by a responsible adult. swimming pool. 4. For younger children especially, take frequent bathroom uestion: We recently been advice many parents have breaks and check diapers in a moved into a been giving their children for diaper-changing area, not next to community that has generations. the pool. several pools. My Originally, it was thought 5. Wash your hands well with Qchildren are so excited that after you eat, blood may be soap and water after using and ask nightly if they diverted away from your arms the bathroom and changing can swim after dinner. Growing up, and legs to your gut so that you diapers. Alcohol-based hand my mom always made me wait 30 can digest your food easily. Thus, sanitisers are not eff ective against minutes after I ate to swim. Also, the advice was to wait since Cryptosporidium. I keep hearing about parasites and you might get tired or fatigued, In most healthy people, the other waterborne illnesses. Can and be more likely to drown. symptoms of this infection will you clear up the myths from facts We know now that there is no resolve within a couple of weeks so I can keep our family safe while scientifi c basis for that. While it without any treatment. enjoying the pool? may not be the most comfortable The most important thing Answer: Moving is always thing to go for a swim with a is to drink plenty of fl uids and exciting and especially to a place full belly, this is not a dangerous stay well-hydrated. However, that has amenities for your activity to routinely enjoy. Where the infection can be more severe children to enjoy. Pools can be community swimming pools and prolonged in people with a great place to relax on a hot can become a problem is if they weakened immune systems or summer day, and they provide become contaminated with underlying digestive system issues great social and recreational REMOVING GERMS: Rinse off in the shower before and after getting in the Cryptosporidium parasites. These (e.g. infl ammatory bowel disease). entertainment. But you are pool to remove germs on your body that could contaminate the water. microscopic parasites live in the People with those conditions correct. There are many things to intestines of humans or animals, should talk to their health care be mindful of regarding health and a responsible adult. Drowning On average, there are 3,500 and are shed through stool. provider to fi nd out whether wellness. remains a leading cause of fatalities annually from drowning, Symptoms of Cryptosporidium they need to be tested or treated Most importantly, before you unintentional death for people of or about 10 people a day who die infections include watery for Cryptosporidium or other send your children to the pool, all ages, especially children under from drowning. diarrhoea, dehydration, lack of infectious causes of diarrhoea make sure they know how to swim 14, according to the Centers for Waiting to swim for 30 to appetite, weight loss, stomach – Mayo Clinic News Network/ and will always be supervised by Disease Control and Prevention. 60 minutes after eating has cramps or pain, fever, or nausea. TNS 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 7, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Where you shift perilously between life and death The quiet was broken only by the putt-putt-putting of hand-held vibrating treatments on patients’ chests, occasional ventilator alarms — and the coughs, reports Sharon Grigsby THE SCENE: Healthcare workers work to treat critically ill patients filling bed after bed in the Parkland Hospital Covid-19 Tactical Care Unit in Dallas. I have not done he critically ill patients breathing free on the outside, get anything other than in Parkland’s Covid-19 to wear. Tactical Care Unit Not the 52-year-old man in one take care of critically couldn’t wear masks bed or his 77-year-old mother a Teven if they wanted few beds down. Not the man who ill Covid patients since to. They each have a plastic tube went on a ventilator on this Friday jammed down their throats, night or the one who has been on a the end of February, and straight to their lungs. The other machine for more than two months. I’m just resigned that end of each tube coils like a In this low-ceilinged space, translucent snake, tethering the crammed full of a maze of medical this is what I’m going to inert form in the bed to a gleaming equipment, the two rows of beds machine — and, with luck, to life. stretch farther than you want to be doing all day for the It’s eerily quiet on this long, look. open ward and the 30 patients on Many of the intubated patients foreseeable future ventilators seem frozen in place. lie on their stomachs to make ‘ They’re unconscious, sedated with breathing easier. On one man’s back powerful drugs, in part to prevent lie a rosary, a cross and a prayer — Dr Matt Leveno, them from ripping out the lines that card, placed there by the staff at the are keeping them alive. family’s request. On another is a Tactical Care Unit’s Not one would hesitate for a pocket prayer shawl with the words medical director nanosecond to trade the invasive “May you be reminded of God’s ’ plastic tubes for the masks that we, unending love for you.” Tuesday, July 7, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Death stalks the rows of beds as that it’s hard to watch when people surely as the legion of caregivers aren’t doing things that are simple — struggling to fend it off .