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GUWAHATI: Assam is facing an acute shortage of intensivists who are specialized doctors trained to work in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs). At present ICUs in six medical colleges & hospitals and other government hospitals mostly filled with Covid-19 patients are managed by anaesthetists as their expertise overlaps with intensivists when it comes to duties such as operating the ventilator. The critical Covid-19 patients develop a severe form of lung injury called ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome). These patients require ventilators for survival.
Shortage of Intensivists Staff in Guwahati, Assam
To manage and treat such serious patients, government hospitals require a good number of intensivists. But none of the medical colleges in Assam has a separate critical care department to produce intensivists, a source in the Health department said.
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Junior doctors stage a silent protest at the GMCH on Wednesday.
GUWAHATI: Doctors on Wednesday boycotted OPD services, as healthcare in the testing time of Covid suffered a major jolt with widespread protests against the assault of a doctor in Hojai. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Assam chapter has further threatened to boycott Covid duty from Thursday if the state government fails to deploy armed police in Covid care facilities and assure fast-track trial of the culprits in three months.
At the call of the Assam Medical Service Association (Amsa), another leading association of doctors, and supported by IMA, the OPD boycott protests started from Wednesday morning. We are going to withdraw OPD services from Wednesday so that people realise the importance of doctors. Next time, if any such incident of assault on any health worker takes place, we will immediately cease all services, Amsa said in a statement.