Jamshedpur: With the number of Covid cases nearing the 20,000-mark in East Singhbhum, the Tata Main Hospital (TMH) here is going to increase its Covid infrastructural facilities to tackle the high patient load.
According to hospital sources, the total number of Covid patients admitted at TMH was eight just two weeks ago but now it has gone up to 80. “Currently, we have 140 general beds and 18 ICU beds for Covid patients but in the wake of a surge in cases, the infrastructural and diagnostic facilities are likely to be increased at the hospital,” Rajan Chaudhry, Tata Steel’s advisor of medical services, said. He added that the next couple of weeks will be crucial for the district in terms of a jump in the number of active cases.
A research paper written by doctors from the more-than-a-century-old Tata Main Hospital (TMH) in Jharkhand in January has become a part of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) global literature on the coronavirus disease.
The Jamshedpur-based over 1,000-bed hospital is managed by Tata Steel.
The article, “A prospective study on rapidly declining SARS-Cov-2 immunoglobulin (IgG) antibodies one to three months of testing IgG positives. Can it lead to potential reinfections?”, written by Air Marshal Rajan Choudhary, adviser, medical services, Tata Steel, Dr Sanjay Deb Nag (anaesthetist), Dr Minakshi Mishra (pathology), Dr Sudhir Rai (general manager, Tata Main Hospital) and Minakshi Gupta (microbiology), has been published in peer-reviewed indexed international journals.