Why are Indians in their 30s increasingly having to get hip replacements?
Young adults in India are increasingly requiring hip replacement surgeries due to avascular necrosis. Medical experts link this trend to the widespread use of high-dose corticosteroids during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Why it matters
It highlights a significant long-term public health crisis resulting from pandemic-era medical treatments.
Five years since Covid-19 swept through India, the country is now grappling with a health consequence that few saw coming. Clinicians are reporting a wave of young adults, barely past thirty, walking into orthopaedic clinics with hips that have aged decades ahead of their time.
The article reports on medical findings and clinical observations without taking a political stance.
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