State declares COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis as a notifiable disease, but is silent on treatment cost
The State government on Wednesday declared COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis (CAM) as a notifiable disease and mandated all private hospitals to report cases to the Department of Health and Family Welfare. The order also stated that no hospital that has the facilities for treatment should refuse admission to any patient.
Health and Family Welfare Minister K. Sudhakar had said on Monday that the treatment for CAM should be given for seven consecutive weeks and costs ₹2-3 lakh
While the order lists six government medical colleges across the State [BMCRI in Bengaluru, and medical colleges in Mysuru, Shivamogga and Kalaburagi, Wenlock Hospital, Mangaluru, and KIMS, Hubballi] as centres for CAM treatment, it is silent on expenses incurred on treatment in private hospitals. On who will bear the cost, Dr. Sudhakar said he would discuss with the Chief Minister the possibility of th
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Victoria’s dirty secret
Testing positive for covid is a nightmare in itself but for some
patients like Mamatha KS, a resident of
Kumaraswamy layout, her stay in a hospital, under the
Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST) quota, was worse than the symptoms of the infections. Her father too had a hard time as a patient in the SAST quota, she says.
Mamatha said she got admitted to
Victoria Hospital on April 27th after her oxygen saturation dropped to 82, and her
HRCT severity score was 15/25. While her admission formalities to a general covid ward were underway, she says she was given a bed where an elderly woman who was occupying it had died due to covid. “I was told that the elderly patient had collapsed in the bathroom and there was no one to help her. Three patients from the ward told me that they brought her back to her bed and later she was declared dead by the doctors. Her body was placed on the floor next to me for nearly a day,” said Mamatha, still shocked by t
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Minister for Cooperation S.T. Somashekar, who is in charge of Mysuru district, has directed the police to strengthen security at the K.R.Hospital where doctors on COVID-19 duty were roughed up following a patient’s death.
Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, Mr. Somashekar said action will also be initiated against those responsible for manhandling the hospital staff. The Minister said he has also spoken to the authorities concerned on preventing such incidents from being repeated.
Extolling the entire medical community for their work during the pandemic, the Minister said the doctors and nurses were working round-the-clock to treat the patients and one had to be indebted to them for their services.