Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Saturday dodged questions related to the scores of deaths at the Goa Medical College (GMC), even as Dr. Shivanand Bandekar, dean of the apex institute claimed that it was .
Goa includes Baricitinib medicine to COVID-19 treatment protocol: Health minister ANI | Updated: May 16, 2021 03:40 IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], May 16 (ANI): The Goa Health Department is working on additional treatment protocols with the introduction of Baricitinib medicine for COVID-19 patients, informed Goa health minister Vishwajit P Rane on Saturday. Subsequent to our meeting held yesterday with the expert team of doctors, the Health Department is working on additional treatment protocols recently adopted by the Karnataka Government , Rane informed in a Facebook post.
Under the guidance of Dr Anoop Amarnath, Head, Scientific Board and Chairman-Geriatric Medicine, Manipal Hospital and member of state s Critical Care Support Team, has supported and approved the usage of Baricitinib.
: Saturday, May 15, 2021, 10:40 AM IST
Oxygen tank with capacity of 20,000 litres being installed at Goa Medical College and Hospital, says CM Pramod Sawant
Oxygen tank with capacity of 20,000 litres being installed at Goa Medical College and Hospital, says CM
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Days after the deaths of 26 COVID-19 patients at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) allegedly due to shortage of medical oxygen, an oxygen tank with a capacity of 20,000 litres is being installed at the state s largest COVID facility, said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday. To ensure seamless oxygen supply and reduce dependence on the trolley system we have started installation of 20,000 Litres of Medical Oxygen Tank at Goa Medical College. This tank would be made operational on a war footing, Sawant tweeted.
Bharatiya Janata Party chief J.P. Nadda has asked Goa s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to keep aside their differences and focus on controlling the Covid pandemic in the state. Amid the worsening situation in Goa, differences between Sawant and Rane over Covid management have come to the fore. The central leadership of the party believes that it will harm the BJP a year ahead of the state Assembly polls. The Assembly polls are likely to be scheduled in the first quarter of next year. Taking note of reports of differences between the Chief Minister and the Health Minister, Nadda spoke with them and suggested that they reconcile their differences and avoid expressing them in public.
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 11:45 PM
For the past month and a half, the international community has watched in horror as India has suffered from one of the world s deadliest national outbreaks of COVID-19, provoked in part by a prime minister who held massive political rallies, and allowed massive gatherings for the celebration of Hindu religious holidays, gatherings that epidemiologists say helped seed the latest outbreak.
Even as the US and Europe have sent vaccines, medicine, oxygen tanks and other supplies, the government has refused to impose more restrictive measures, and the number of daily deaths has continued to accelerate.