Increasing number of COVID-19 patients who require oxygen support pour in Major government hospitals in the city, over the past few weeks, have been stepping up their oxygen-supported bed capacity to meet the needs of an increasing number of patients who require oxygen.
Be it beds with oxygen supply from a central line or those with oxygen concentrator support, hospitals have been ramping up infrastructure in the available space, as COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen support continue to pour in.
The Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) has now added 136 oxygen-supported beds on the seventh floor of tower-3 the designated COVID-19 block. With this, the hospital now has 1,914 beds 1,242 oxygen-supported beds, 280 with oxygen concentrators and 393 non-oxygen ones.
Government hospitals in Chennai do a tightrope walk
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Focus is on triaging patients and increasing the number of beds
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Focus is on triaging patients and increasing the number of beds
With the active caseload surging past 25,000 in Chennai on Sunday, it is a tightrope walk for government hospitals in the city. Hospitals are focusing on triaging patients and are taking up work to increase the bed strength.
In all, the five major government hospitals in Chennai have 4,368 beds for patients with COVID-19. As on April 18, 3,002 beds were occupied, with the Government Corona Hospital at Guindy running to full capacity. A number of patients are waiting for admission depending on discharges.
Tamil Nadu pushes for vaccination of differently abled, athletes, traders
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An appeal has been made to the Centre, says Health Secretary
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An appeal has been made to the Centre, says Health Secretary
Tamil Nadu is pushing for the vaccination of the differently abled persons, athletes, shopkeepers and persons who have undergone organ transplantation, regardless of their age, said Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan.
“It is important to give priority to differently abled persons, athletes and shopkeepers as well as persons who have undergone organ transplant without any age limitation. We have requested the Centre to allow us to vaccinate such persons. It is the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC), of which Tamil Nadu was a member, that will decide depending on the vaccine availability. We are definitely pushing for it,” he said, in reply to a question on demands from differently abled associations for vaccination