Surat doc, who helped intubate Covid patient in ICU, airlifted to Chennai

Dr Mehta is suspected to have contracted the infection from one of the surgeries that he attended. He was primarily associated with two private hospitals in Surat – Lifeline Hospital and Surat ENT Hospital.

Nearly two months after testing positive for Covid-19, Dr Sanket Mehta, a 37-year-old anaesthetist from Surat, was airlifted to Chennai on Sunday after chest scans showed severe damage to his lungs.

While his friend, Dr Jayesh Thakrar, said Dr Mehta, who tested positive in July-end, took a turn for the worse in the second week of August, a couple of days after he intubated a 70-year-old Covid patient who was lying in a neighbouring…