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Corporation-run facility can screen over 1,000 patients
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Tamil Nadu government and Chennai Corporation officials inspect the 24X7 Corona Screening Centre set up at Kendriya Vidyalaya campus in Pallavan Salai, Chennai. Photo: Twitter/@chennaicorp
Corporation-run facility can screen over 1,000 patients The Greater Chennai Corporation launched a triaging centre for COVID-19 patients at the Island Grounds on Saturday.
This is the largest triaging centre in the city, screening at least 1,000 patients before they are sent to tertiary care hospitals, COVID care centres or home isolation.
Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash said, “This facility will ease the pressure on the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and the Government Stanley Hospital. Mild, moderate and asymptomatic cases need not crowd hospitals. We are mulling over setting up one more centre.”
The dean of the Stanley Hospital, on Saturday, initiated the first phase of the project, that is being carried out in association with Masusa Foundation NGO by distributing ten. pieces of the orthotics equipment worth Rs 50,000.
Director of Institute of Social Pediatrics, while speaking about the same to a media house said that the distribution will be made to the children who might need the equipment and that the distribution would be done in a phased manner.
He also appealed the children from poor backgrounds who are in need of such equipment to reach out to the hospital s District Early Intervention Centre that has been set up under the National Health Mission and runs with an objective of effectively identifying children with deficiencies as well as birth defects and eventually providing treatment for them..