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The Bengal government on Monday asked private hospitals to increase the Covid bed count or reopen satellite centres they had been running last year for Covid patients, the request triggered by an alarming rise in the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus. Several private hospitals said they had closed the satellite units following a sharp drop in the number of Covid patients towards the end of last year, a trend that persisted for several more weeks before cases started rising a...

The state government is considering taking the Covid-19 vaccination drive to big housing complexes and corporate houses so that more people can be inoculated against the disease that is spreading much faster than it did at the peak of the epidemic last year. The state health department on Monday met representatives of several private hospitals to discuss how off-site vaccination could be done in Calcutta. Till now in Bengal, Covid-19 vaccines are given only at designated hospitals and clinics, ...

Several private hospitals were filled with vaccine recipients in the 45 years to 59 years category on Saturday, most of them using the holiday to get themselves vaccinated. Hospitals expect a rush on Sunday too. Officials in the hospitals said they witnessed a sharp spike in the total vaccination numbers compared to the last few days, primarily because of a large number of office-goers taking the jab on Saturday. Peerless Hospital vaccinated 391 people on Saturday, with 223 of them in the 45 to...

“It is clear that the working population prefers to take the jab at a time that does not coincide with their work schedule. We vaccinated about 120 people between 8am and 10am - 100 of them were between 45 and 59,” said R. Venkatesh, the regional head (east) of Narayana Health, which owns the RN Tagore hospital. At Belle Vue Clinic, 324 people were vaccinated on Thursday, compared with 124 on Wednesday. Nearly 80 per cent of the 324 people were between 45 and 59, an official of the hospital...

Several private hospitals in the city have increased their Covid bed count because of a steady rise in the number of cases and an increasing percentage of people testing positive are being hospitalised. All these hospitals had reduced the number of Covid beds in December and January following a significant dip in the number of cases. But over the past week they have been converting non-Covid beds into Covid ones. Several other hospitals are considering doing the same because the existing Covid ...

Search Corporate houses and welfare associations of housing complexes make jab bookings Hospitals decide to approach companies with whom they have agreements on hospitalisation and routine check-ups for vaccination Corporate houses and welfare associations of housing complexes are approaching private hospitals to vaccinate their employees and residents who are 45 or above against Covid-19.  From Thu...

Several private hospitals in Calcutta are setting up bigger and permanent structures for Covid-19 vaccination as they realise the drive is likely to continue for many months and the state government is asking them to increase the number of daily doses being administered as cases are rising again. Some hospitals have refurbished the vaccination rooms, while others are planning to relocate the sites within the campus so more people can be accommodated. Officials of several private hospitals said ...

Elderly people are preferring Covishield to Covaxin Many elderly people, who are receiving Covid-19 vaccines, are telling private hospitals that they prefer Covishield to Covaxin, officials of several healthcare institutes said. All hospitals in Calcutta are now administering Covishield vaccine, developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. The homegrown Covaxin is not supplied by the government to hospitals at this moment, said health depar...

Fortis Hospital, Faridabad extends it services at Mathura, Launches Super Specialty OPD services Posted On: 2021-03-07 04:01:08 (Time Zone: Arizona, USA) Pertaining to the prevailing void of basic super specialty support for cardiac sciences and oncology, Fortis Hospital, Faridabad launched its super specialty OPD services at Amar Healthcare, Mathura, today. Pioneers in catering healthcare services to the patients across Delhi NCR region, this is yet another patient-centric step taken by t...

Several private hospitals that started giving Covid-19 vaccine jabs to senior citizens and people above 45 with comorbidities on Wednesday got the recipients registered with the Co-Win2 portal at their help desks, instead of having them self-register, to avoid delays and long waits. However, many private hospitals could not start vaccinating the two categories because of glitches in the registration portal. To get vaccinated, prospective recipients need to register with a particular hospital fo...