Recovery eludes Covid patients in ICUs
Updated May 9, 2021, 9:58 am IST
With fewer quick discharges, demand for ICU beds goes up; lack of beds puts patients in a fix
Though only very few Covid patients required ICU and other critical care during the first wave, this time round, we are seeing more patients needing such attention and they are taking longer to recover. Representational image/PTI
Hyderabad: The outlook for Covid-19 patients, needing treatment in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), does not appear bright with doctors reporting that more and more such patients are requiring continued ICU support even after recovering from Covid-19.
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COVID-19: Police set up help desks at Gandhi, TIMS
By Falguni Lalwani| Published: 7th May 2021 4:47 pm IST
Hyderabad: In a bid to keep the family members of COVID-19 patients admitted into the hospitals informed, city police on Thursday set up help desks at state-run Gandhi and Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS).
The help centers were set up by the police in coordination with the medical and municipal administration departments.
The help desk has been set up for family members of COVID-19 patients being treated at Gandhi and TIMS, level-1 COVID-19 hospitals, where they can get the health status and other details of the patients through the centre, officials said.
NEW DELHI: As EU announced a 2.2 million euro assistance package for India on Wednesday, government sources said the aid arriving in India were being distributed to hospitals around the country.
On Wednesday the new charge’d’affaires at the US Embassy, Dan Smith tweeted, “The US-India partnership involves all aspects of the relationship: government, business and people. This week vaccine components arrived in India from the US that will enable the manufacturing of 20 million doses of Covishield vaccine.”
Twenty oxygen concentrators from Russia have been given to Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi. One large oxygen generating plant given by Italy has been sent to the ITBP hospital in Noida.