Kozhikode can handle up to 75,000 patients, says Collector
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3,688 beds kept ready to be used in COVID hospitals
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3,688 beds kept ready to be used in COVID hospitals
Kozhikode District Collector S. Sambasiva Rao has claimed that steps have been taken to ensure treatment for at least 75,000 COVID-19 patients at various health facilities. As many as 3,688 beds have been kept ready to be used in COVID hospitals.
He told the media at an online press meet on Thursday that the available capacity would not have to be utilised to the maximum. A district-level war room has been functioning to monitor the usage of intensive care units (ICU), ventilators, and oxygen cylinders. Data from hospitals will be updated every four hours. Coordinators have been appointed at hospitals to ensure proper treatment.
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Many of Bharatiya Janata Party’s members and supporters have been circulating a list on social media claiming that most of the All India Institute of Medical Science hospitals in the country were built during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime.
This is misleading because although six AIIMS were announced by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led BJP government, they were established during the time of the United Progressive Alliance government.
Non-COVID patients will be affected by turning MCH into ‘sole point of definitive care’
A section of doctors is apprehensive that non-COVID patients will be affected by the ongoing efforts to turn the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, to what they termed as the “sole point of definitive care” for those infected by the virus. They are also worried that the existing system to mainly utilise the services of house surgeons and resident doctors for the treatment will be effective on a long-term basis.
According to sources, all the main wards in the general medicine department are slowly turning into COVID-only facilities right now. The newly constructed block under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) too will be utilised for the treatment as more cases are being reported. Some doctors at the MCH told
Hospitals readied to face surge in infections in Kozhikode
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Curbs on visitors to medical college hospital from Monday
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Things are back to square one at the two government hospitals designated for COVID-19 treatment in Kozhikode district – the Government Medical College Hospital and the Government General Hospital – as they are being readied to handle the ongoing surge in new COVID-19 infections. The district administration has directed private hospitals also to set aside beds even as over 2,000 fresh cases were reported on Sunday.
After fresh cases started declining in the district some time ago, non-COVID treatment had been slowly resumed at the general hospitals and the medical college hospital. Now, with more number of people getting infected following the COVID-19 second wave, the focus is again on pandemic control. Medical college Superintendent M.P. Sreejayan said in a note tha
New Gen system to help faster sequencing of SARS-CoV-2: Harsh Vardhan
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Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare during the inauguration of the 62nd Delhi State Annual Medical Conference, in New Delhi on Sunday March 07, 2021 (Photo: IANS/Wasim Sarvar). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, March 13 : While inaugurating the Mycology Advanced Resource Centre (MARC) established in collaboration with the ICMR in Bhopal, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that the new generation sequencing facility at the institute will boost the pace of genome sequencing of viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19.