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Poor quarantine facility: PG medical students up in arms

Updated: Share Article AAA Postgraduate students staging a silent protest near the Dean’s office at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital on Friday.   | Photo Credit: HANDOUT Condemning the pathetic conditions prevailing in their quarantine facility at the hostel, 330 postgraduate students of Tirunelveli Medical College began an indefinite strike on Friday. However, the protesting students have made it clear that they would continue to serve in the emergency ward where the COVID-19 patients were undergoing treatment. The agitating postgraduate medicos, who have to work in the COVID-19 wards for prolonged hours, complained that they were attending patients with the deadly viral infection in shifts but had no proper place to take rest on the hospital premises and even during the quarantine period.

Plan to distribute food packets

Plan to distribute food packets Updated: Updated: During the lockdown on Sundays Share Article During the lockdown on Sundays The corporation, which fed over 700 homeless during the complete lockdown on April 24 after preparing the food in its ‘Amma Unavagam,’ has planned to cover more number of people during the lockdown on coming Sunday also. “This number includes the patients undergoing treatment in the Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital and their attendants,” said G. Kannan, Corporation Commission. Though the corporation’s finances are not so healthy, it fed the homeless during the complete lockdown between April and June last year until ruling AIADMK’s Tirunelveli district secretary N. Ganesa Raja took the responsibility of giving free ‘food tokens’ of Amma Unavagam to the roofless until the situation improved.

Oxygen availability, demand reviewed

Oxygen availability, demand reviewed Updated: Updated: Special monitoring committee formed in Tirunelveli Share Article Special monitoring committee formed in Tirunelveli TIRUNELVELI Collector V. Vishnu chaired a meeting here on Monday evening to review the availability of medical oxygen in the district and the steps to be taken in case of sudden surge in demand for the gas following a sharp rise in the influx of fresh COVID-19 cases. Mr. Vishnu also reviewed information on the number of COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment in the hospitals across the district, especially in the Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital, government hospitals and the private hospitals and the demand for oxygen for the patients undergoing treatment.

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