patients on home isolation guidelines through the groups we usually also call recovered patients for a postdischarge outcome study said dr dk gupta director of the hospital its an important exercise as child pgi is also engaged in numerous research projects related to covid19 including icmrs national plasma trials about 430 patients have recovered from child pgi they are being monitored and several research studies based on their treatment and recovery are under way at the hospital said dr nita radhakrishnan assistant professor at the hospitalsome hospitals have also recently introduced postcovid clinics fortis last week launched such a clinic to assess patients suffering from respiratory cardiac and psychological problems after discharge dr mrinal sircar of fortis said it has been widely reported in medical literature that many covid19 survivors are facing other health issues like pulmonary inflammation fibrosis accelerated cardiac pathology weight loss lack of energy postevent anxiety stress sleep disturbance etc we launched the post covid19 clinic to address such issues