A total of 2,835 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Coimbatore district on Thursday.
According to the Health Department, active cases of the disease increased to 16,271 and 1,740 persons from the district recovered from the disease on Thursday.
The department on Thursday said that 13 more persons from Coimbatore district died of COVID-19 between Monday and Wednesday, taking the death toll to 824. Of the 13 deaths, seven deaths were reported at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and the remaining at different private hospitals.
Coimbatore district had a total of 608 beds - 13 ICU beds, 16 O2 beds and 579 normal beds – remaining vacant at different hospitals as of Thursday evening. Covid Care Centres (CCC) had 380 vacant beds.
Nurses Day observance sees rare gesture from Dean
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May 13, 2021 04:24 IST
He knelt and bowed before the nurses who are at the forefront of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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M. Raveendran, Dean of the Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore, kneeling before nurses on Wednesday.
He knelt and bowed before the nurses who are at the forefront of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior nurses, who had gathered around the portrait of Florence Nightingale at the Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore, on Wednesday were witness to a rare gesture by the head of the institution on International Nurses Day.
COIMBATORE: M Raveendran, dean of Coimbatore’s ESI hospital, on Wednesday honoured senior nurses by kneeling down before them and also before a portra.
Oxygen crisis imminent, say private hospitals
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Workers unloading medical oxygen cylinders from a truck at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday.
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Coimbatore With COVID-19 cases going up and hospitals witnessing more admissions of people requiring oxygen support, private hospitals anticipate an imminent crisis.
Of the 40-odd private hospitals that are treating COVID-19 patients, four major hospitals alone require about 12 metric tonnes (MT) of medical oxygen a day in the current scenario.
According to officials in the know of the requirement at the district administration, the total requirement for all the hospitals was about 20 MT a day.
Coimbatore: The swab collection centre for RT-PCR test at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) was shifted to St. Francis Anglo Indian Girls High School located next door on Monday to reduce crowding on the tertiary hospital’s premises.
Corporation commissioner Kumaravel Pandian inspected CMCH premises on Monday to see if all Covid-19 precautions were being followed. Alarmed by the crowded swab collection centre, he suggested ways to decongest the campus.
“There is crowding at the testing centre because there is not enough space for people to wait and distance themselves. The lack of space is because of too many ambulances driving in and piling up at the same drop-off point,” an official said.