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May 11, 2021 04:33 IST
Adding to the exhaustion due to COVID-19 duty is the risk of infection that they face every day
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CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU,07/05/2021: Doctor examine to covid patient on Ambulance at Kilpauk Government Medical College hospital on Friday, May 07, 2021.Photo: Velankanni Raj B/THE HINDU
Adding to the exhaustion due to COVID-19 duty is the risk of infection that they face every day
Many healthcare providers/workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the State. In a number of cases, family members of the doctors too have been infected.
In the last two days, a government doctor and two nurses lost their lives to COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu. With exhaustion setting in among health workers, the risk of getting infected is adding to their stress.
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May 08, 2021 14:53 IST
Remdesivir will now be sold in five districts apart from Chennai; work to set up a COVID-19 war room is in progress, the Minister said
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Health Minister Ma Subramanian inspected the upcoming facilities for COVID-19 at Government Stanley Medical College Hospital on Saturday
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Remdesivir will now be sold in five districts apart from Chennai; work to set up a COVID-19 war room is in progress, the Minister said A total of 12,500 oxygen-supported beds are being readied across the State and will be available by May 15, according to Health Minister Ma. Subramanian.
TN govt plans to set up counters to sell Remdesivir in other districts
May 09, 2021
Move aimed at cracking down black marketing of the Covid drug
In a major relief for Covid-19 patients and their relatives living in various districts, the Tamil Nadu government plans to open counters in Madurai, Coimbatore, Salem, Tirunelveli and Tiruchirapalli to sell the critical anti-viral drug Remdesivir.
They need not come to Chennai to buy the drug, said Health Minister M Subramanian on Saturday.
As there is a huge demand for the drug and to avoid black marketing, the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation sells it directly to patients only at the Government Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) in Chennai. Relatives from across the State undergo a lot of ordeals to procure it by standing in the long queue. Many even join the queue overnight to get the drug in the morning.
Ambulances queue up outside hospitals as beds turn scarce
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COVID-19 patients have to wait for several hours to be admitted, say doctors
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System overwhelmed: Ambulances carrying COVID-19 patients waiting outside the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on Thursday.
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COVID-19 patients have to wait for several hours to be admitted, say doctors
At midnight, when most roads in the city were deserted, the stretches adjoining some of the major government hospitals had a line of ambulances and private vehicles waiting with COVID-19 patients.
On Wednesday midnight, at least 15 ambulances both government and private were waiting outside one of the government hospitals in the city. Some patients had come to the hospitals in autorickshaws.
The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak has reached the southern states of India. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karntaka are grappling with the sharp spike in cases.