Coimbatore: The district, which is reeling under severe drug shortage, recorded 1,509 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, when the tally jumped to 84,206 from 82,689 on Monday. With this, the number of active cases has touched a new high of 8,596.
With 1,105 patients getting discharged from various treatment centres, the number of recovered patients has increased to 74,877 on the day. Presently, the recovery rate stands at 88.9%.
The Covid-19 toll, meanwhile, rose by four to 733. This is the highest number of deaths to be reported in a single day in the second wave. Three of the victims - a 47-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man – died of bilateral bronchopneumonia in the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital in three subsequent days starting Thursday last week. They didn’t have any comorbidities. The fourth victim was a 79-year-old hypertensive, diabetic woman who died on Thursday. Her sample tested positive for the virus only on Sunday.
It’s an ‘endless wait’ for Remdesivirat Chennai’s Kilpauk Medical College
May 05, 2021
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J Gangadhar of Tiruvannamalai has been waiting for over 18 hours in the queue outside Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) Hospital in Chennai, hoping to get Remdesivir for his mother.
MRP of drug
At 10:30 am, the serpentine queue was already over a mile long as hundreds of anxious kith and kin of patients lined up at the government hospital, where the State is ensuring that the drug is available at an MRP of ₹9,480 per vial so that they do not buy it in the black market at an exorbitant price.
Judges want to know action being taken against those selling drugs in the black market
The Madras High Court on Wednesday requested Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan and Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC) Managing Director P. Umanath to appear through video conference on Thursday, if they were otherwise not preoccupied with any urgent COVID-19 related work, to apprise the court of the action being taken to ensure availability of hospital beds, oxygen, ventilators, drugs and COVID-19 vaccine in the State.
Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy also wanted to know the steps being taken to curb black marketing of drugs, such as Remdesivir, since a 25-year-old doctor Mohammed Imran Khan and a few employees of a government general hospital in Tiruvannamalai had been arrested recently on the charge of procuring the drug for ₹8,000 from the government hospital and selling it in the black market for ₹20,000 a vial.
Number of COVID Care Centres goes up as cases increase
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The district administrations in Thanjavur and Nagapattinam have increased the number of COVID Care Centres and the bed capacity, including beds with oxygen support, as the rate of infection reflected a sharp rise on Saturday and Sunday.
While Thanjavur district had reported a gradual spike over the last month, with students of various schools reporting positive in April, the recent infections are among the general public. Keeping in mind the increasing trend, the Thanjavur Medical College Hospital has suspended all elective surgeries and treatments; only emergency care wing will be functional. A total of 1,060 beds, of which 389 have oxygen support and 218 are in the intensive-care unit have been readied, official sources said.