Coronavirus: Hungarian hospital successfully used Tocilizumab therapy to save the life of a doctor

Gábor Gyergyai owes his life to the treatment of the South-Pest Hospital Centre (abbreviated DPC in Hungarian), he is the first patient to recover with Tocilizumab therapy.

Gábor Gyergyai works as a general practitioner and school doctor in Dunaharaszti. He told Magyar Nemzet that he still worked on March 20, but the following day, he felt a general malaise, accompanied by a fever and diarrhoea. To the best of his knowledge, he had not contacted a coronavirus patient before, so he did not think he was infected with COVID-19.

However, his symptoms did not improve, so on Monday, he decided to visit the Emergency Department at Semmelweis University. After he tested positive for coronavirus, he was ordered to stay in home quarantine. Four days later, his breathing difficulties worsened, so he was transported to the South-Pest Hospital Centre. His condition soon turned critical, so he had to be transferred to the intensive care unit, where he was anesthetised for thirteen days and attached to a breathing machine.