PM CARES to fund two makeshift 500-bed covid hospitals in Bihar
4 years, 4 months ago

PM CARES to fund two makeshift 500-bed covid hospitals in Bihar

Live Mint  

Two 500-bed makeshift hospitals for covid-19 patients are to be built in Bihar with money provided by the PM CARES trust fund. In a series of tweets, the Prime Minister’s Office said, “PM-CARES Fund Trust has decided to allocate funds for fight against COVID-19 by way of establishment of 500-bed COVID-19 Makeshift Hospitals at Patna & Muzaffarpur, Bihar by DRDO. Ahead of the elections, Bihar’s healthcare system is the subject of political debate as the ruling National Democratic Alliance government under chief minister Nitish Kumar is facing a tough challenge containing the pandemic. Taking note of the use of funds under the PM Cares Fund, Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted, “The central government is working closely with the state government to help the #COVID19 patients in Bihar by further bolstering COVID care.” The PM CARES Fund was established on 27 March in the aftermath of the pandemic to mobilize resources and is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Health Infra Worth Rs 300 Cr to Come Up in Mancherial
1 month ago

Health Infra Worth Rs 300 Cr to Come Up in Mancherial

Deccan Chronicle  

Mancherial: Health minister C. Damodar Rajanarasimha and IT and industries minister D. Sridhar Babu jointly laid the foundation stones on Thursday for a super specialty hospital and a mother-and-child healthcare centre in Mancherial. “Our goal is to ensure 90 per cent of the population receives medical care locally, while only 10 per cent would need to travel to cities for …

PM-ABHIM: 30,000 Critical Care Beds, Regional Centres to Enhance Healthcare Infrastructure
1 month, 4 weeks ago

PM-ABHIM: 30,000 Critical Care Beds, Regional Centres to Enhance Healthcare Infrastructure

The Hindu  

PM-ABHIM is a massive infrastructure project that aims to strengthen the country's healthcare system and prepare it for future pandemics. The mission includes the creation of 30,000 critical care beds, the establishment of regional centers for the National Institute of Virology, and the development of a National One Health Mission to bring different sectors together and address health, productivity, and …

Patna to house world's second-largest hospital: All you need to know
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Patna to house world's second-largest hospital: All you need to know

India Today  

In a groundbreaking development, Bihar is set to become home to the world's second-largest hospital by capacity, with the Patna Medical College and Hospital undergoing a massive transformation. The project, costing a staggering Rs 5,540 crore, is designed to offer world-class medical education and healthcare services, addressing urgent medical needs across India. The hospital's cutting-edge facilities, combined with its sheer …

COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in India’s health infrastructure in India: Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
1 year, 5 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in India’s health infrastructure in India: Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

The Hindu  

Union Health Minister Mr. Mansukh Mandaviya on July 6 said the COVID-19 pandemic had highlighted gaps in the country's health infrastructure and and led to measures for bridging them. Mr. Mandaviya said Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has decided to set up a critical care unit in every district of the country with an expenditure of ₹64,000 crore under National …

Covid-19: Hospitalisation low in Bihar despite rise in active cases
1 year, 8 months ago

Covid-19: Hospitalisation low in Bihar despite rise in active cases

Hindustan Times  

PATNA: Bihar reported as many as 133 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, a marginal dip from 198 on Saturday — the highest spike in a day this month — pushing the number of active cases to 857 in the state, as per government data on Sunday. Despite an increase in the number of active cases, only 20 patients required …

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia attends mock drill in hospital, reviews preparedness against Covid-19
1 year, 11 months ago

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia attends mock drill in hospital, reviews preparedness against Covid-19

India Today  

Amid the surge in coronavirus cases globally, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday reviewed the operational preparedness of the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Hospital to deal with emergency situations. Notably, 450 out of 2000 beds have been reserved for Covid patients in Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Hospital, and if needed, the number will be increased. The hospital is fully prepared …

COVID-19: Bihar fully prepared to handle cases surge, says Tejashwi Yadav
2 years ago

COVID-19: Bihar fully prepared to handle cases surge, says Tejashwi Yadav

India TV News  

COVID-19 : Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav asserted that the state government is fully prepared to handle a surge in COVID-19 cases. Yadav, who holds the health portfolio, reviewed the COVID situation in the state with health officials, civil surgeons, and directors of medical colleges on Thursday, asking them to gear up in case of an outbreak of the …

Facing COVID surge, China expanding hospitals, ICUs
2 years ago

Facing COVID surge, China expanding hospitals, ICUs

Associated Press  

BEIJING — Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as it rolls back anti-virus controls that confined millions of people to their homes, crushed economic growth and set off protests. A Cabinet meeting called Thursday for “full mobilization” of hospitals including adding staff to ensure their “combat effectiveness” …

Bihar to have palliative care policy, dedicated beds in hospitals
2 years, 1 month ago

Bihar to have palliative care policy, dedicated beds in hospitals

Hindustan Times  

All medical college hospitals and district hospitals in Bihar will have 10-20 beds for palliative care, aimed at improving the quality of life of both terminally ill patients and their caregivers, people familiar with the matter said. “The 10-bed palliative care centre at Muzaffarpur’s Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital will be ready within a month,” said Dr Ravikant Singh, officer-in-charge …

Reserve at Least 10 Beds in Covid Hospitals for Monkeypox Patients: UP CM Adityanath
2 years, 4 months ago

Reserve at Least 10 Beds in Covid Hospitals for Monkeypox Patients: UP CM Adityanath

News 18  

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to create awareness about monkeypox among people of the state and keep a minimum of 10 beds reserved in Covid hospitals for cases of the disease. In the recent past, reports of pigs dying due to the African swine flu infection have also been received, the chief minister said. Since pig …

We sacrificed income for Mumbai during Covid pandemic, say private hospitals
2 years, 7 months ago

We sacrificed income for Mumbai during Covid pandemic, say private hospitals

India Today  

According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, private hospitals in the city suffered losses to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore during the Covid pandemic. Speaking to India Today, Dr Gautam Bhansali, the BMC appointed coordinator, said that private hospitals did suffer huge losses but that was a sacrifice expected of them, as the situation was unusual. “Around 36 private hospitals did …

Delhi: Covid-19 beds in two hospitals increased as cases soar. Read here
2 years, 7 months ago

Delhi: Covid-19 beds in two hospitals increased as cases soar. Read here

Live Mint  

As Covid-19 cases rise in national capital, the Delhi Government has increased the number of beds dedicated for Covid patients at two of its facilities. In a recent order, dated April 25, issued by the city health department, the number of Covid beds at LNJP Hospital has been stepped up to 450 from 250 earlier, while the number of ICU …

Maharashtra ministers availed Covid treatment in private hospitals
2 years, 8 months ago

Maharashtra ministers availed Covid treatment in private hospitals

Op India  

Shocking information came to the fore about the ministers of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra who availed COVID treatments in private hospitals with public money. According to reports, a total of 18 ministers in the state government received treatment at private hospitals during the Corona period. These 18 ministers spent a whopping Rs 1.39 crore for specialized treatment …

In a pandemic first, no Covid patient admitted at Delhi’s Lok Nayak hospital
2 years, 9 months ago

In a pandemic first, no Covid patient admitted at Delhi’s Lok Nayak hospital

Hindustan Times  

In a heartening announcement, health minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said the Lok Nayak Hospital, the Capital’s largest Covid-19 facility run by the Delhi government, currently has zero Covid-19 patients under treatment. During the recent wave of the omicron variant of Covid-19, an omicron isolation centre was started at the hospital, where patients testing positive upon arrival from foreign countries …

Maharashtra Budget 2022: Women’s Hospital in Each District, Take a Look at Health Budget
2 years, 9 months ago

Maharashtra Budget 2022: Women’s Hospital in Each District, Take a Look at Health Budget

News 18  

The outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, across the globe, has cost people dearly. On March 11, Maharashtra finance minister and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, presented the Maharashtra Budget 2022 in the Assembly, and it looks like the government has taken its learning under consideration while preparing it. Here are the key points from the budget, concerning healthcare: —The state …

With caseload low, Delhi govt packs up two Covid care centres
2 years, 9 months ago

With caseload low, Delhi govt packs up two Covid care centres

Hindustan Times  

Amid falling Covid cases and the positivity rate consistently below 1% in the Capital, the Delhi government has decided to shut two 500 bed Covid care centres — at two Ramlila maidans near Delhi Gate and GTB hospital — which, among others, catered to hundreds of international passengers arriving in Delhi during the Omicron-fuelled third wave in the city. “In …

PM-CARES Fund spent 36.17% of Rs 10,990 crore till March 2021: All you need to know about the fund and its expenditures
2 years, 10 months ago

PM-CARES Fund spent 36.17% of Rs 10,990 crore till March 2021: All you need to know about the fund and its expenditures

Firstpost  

The fund was created on 27 March 2020, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide relief and to ‘deal with any kind of emergency’ The PM-CARES Fund collected Rs 10,990 crore till March 2021 and spent Rs 3,976 or 36.17 per cent of the corpus, according to the audited financial statement posted on its website. Creation and Constitution …

India's surge in Covid-19 infections affecting young children
2 years, 11 months ago

India's surge in Covid-19 infections affecting young children

Hindustan Times  

Priti, who is five and lives in the city of Jaipur, had a fever for four days earlier this month but her parents didn't take her to a hospital. Authorities have reserved more than double the Covid hospital beds for children than recommended by experts out of fear of being underprepared But her condition persisted, resulting in diarrhoea and respiratory …

Now, only takeaways at Delhi bars and restaurants
2 years, 11 months ago

Now, only takeaways at Delhi bars and restaurants

The Hindu  

The Capital’s bars and restaurants will only be allowed to extend takeaway and home delivery services while violation of COVID-appropriate behaviour will be dealt with more strictly now. According to the government, assuming the hospitalisation of 5% infected patients over the coming days, if daily cases touched the 30,000 mark, 1,500 patients would be in need of hospitalisation and the …

Indian hospitals have plenty COVID hospital beds for children
2 years, 11 months ago

Indian hospitals have plenty COVID hospital beds for children

Live Mint  

Indian states have reserved more than double the COVID-19 hospital beds for children than recommended by federal experts out of fear of being under-prepared, government data shows, although doctors say not many youngsters have needed critical care yet. Since the last major infection wave in India starting April, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in the eastern state of …

Government asks states to set up makeshift hospitals
2 years, 11 months ago

Government asks states to set up makeshift hospitals

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Amid a significant rise in Covid-19 cases across the country, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to the chief secretaries of all states and UTs to take measures to deal with a possible surge in Covid cases. Further on Saturday, India saw a single-day rise of 22,775 new Covid-19 cases, highest since October 6, while the number …

Delhi govt readies 3,000 Covid beds of kids as cases surge
2 years, 11 months ago

Delhi govt readies 3,000 Covid beds of kids as cases surge

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: More than 3,000 beds exclusively for children have been prepared in several Delhi government hospitals in view of the surge in the fresh Covid-19 infections in the national capital, Delhi health ministers Satyendar Jain said on Saturday. Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain said the government is readying 3,000 Covid dedicated beds for children at various facilities. There is …

Set up makeshift hospitals: Centre to states as Covid cases surge
2 years, 11 months ago

Set up makeshift hospitals: Centre to states as Covid cases surge

Hindustan Times  

With India witnessing a continuous rise in Covid-19 cases in the past 70 days, the Centre on Saturday advised states to start setting up makeshift hospitals to increase availability of beds, and create special teams to monitor home isolation cases. “To address a potential surge in cases and ensure preparedness, states are advised to initiate creation of field/makeshift hospitals to …

Amid Omicron scare, health department increases hospital beds in Gurugram
3 years ago

Amid Omicron scare, health department increases hospital beds in Gurugram

India Today  

With the rising number of fresh Covid cases being reported due to the Omicron variant, many cities and districts across the country are already on their toes to prevent the horrific situation from repeating, as was seen earlier this year. Levelling up the preparedness for an anticipated third wave of Coronavirus pandemic, Gurugram civic authorities have increased hospital beds in …

Delhi hospitals can now use beds reserved for Covid cases for dengue, malaria, chikungunya patients
3 years, 1 month ago

Delhi hospitals can now use beds reserved for Covid cases for dengue, malaria, chikungunya patients

India TV News  

Delhi government has said that hospitals may use one-third of the beds reserved for coronavirus patients for those suffering from vector-borne diseases if the need arises. Delhi has reported over 1,000 cases of dengue this year, with more than 280 cases logged in the last week, according to a civic report released on Monday. Further many of the beds reserved …

Making India self-reliant in health care
3 years, 2 months ago

Making India self-reliant in health care

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus pandemic presented to us a set of complex challenges, demanding a prompt response to the evolving situation in a manner that also facilitated rapid scaling up of the public health infrastructure, with an approach calibrated to the varying maturity of health systems across India. It also aims to provide health infrastructure, surveillance and research to make the country …

Reliance Foundation’s 230-bed Paediatric Covid Hospital inaugurated in Gujarat's Jamnagar
3 years, 2 months ago

Reliance Foundation’s 230-bed Paediatric Covid Hospital inaugurated in Gujarat's Jamnagar

India TV News  

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday inaugurated Reliance Foundation’s 230-bed Paediatric Covid Hospital at Jamnagar. After setting up a 400-bed Covid Care facility in Jamnagar in a record time of less than a week, this state-of-the-art new Paediatric Covid Hospital is another major achievement by Reliance Foundation. Image Source : INDIA TV/FILE Reliance Foundation’s 230-bed Paediatric Covid Hospital inaugurated …

PM Modi reviews Covid situation, asks states to maintain medicines stock in every district
3 years, 3 months ago

PM Modi reviews Covid situation, asks states to maintain medicines stock in every district

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review the Covid-19 related situation. The topics covered included a review of the prevailing Covid-19 scenario, preparedness of the health systems to respond, availability of medical oxygen, and matters relating to production, supply, and distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine. PM was also informed about the states being asked to maintain a …

With 50,000 beds Andhra Pradesh gets ready to face third COVID-19 wave in August
3 years, 5 months ago

With 50,000 beds Andhra Pradesh gets ready to face third COVID-19 wave in August

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government is getting ready to tackle the third wave of Coronavirus pandemic, which is likely to erupt in the third week of August, by arranging some 50,000 beds and also strengthening all medical and health infrastructure in the state. The health authorities say that as the number of Coronavirus infections and the related deaths are rising …

Covid Bed Facility At Indira Gandhi Hospital: Delhi High Court Seeks Timeline For Setting Up Super Specialties
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid Bed Facility At Indira Gandhi Hospital: Delhi High Court Seeks Timeline For Setting Up Super Specialties

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to file a 'better affidavit' within two weeks, indicating the timeline within which Phase-I and Phase-II super specialty facilities will be set up in the Indira Gandhi Hospital, a dedicated Covid-19 hospital. You need to have experts and facilities for super specialty treatment: Justice Sanghi#DelhiHighCourt #Covid19 — Live Law July 14, …

850 oxygen plants being set up in various districts from PM Cares: DRDO
3 years, 6 months ago

850 oxygen plants being set up in various districts from PM Cares: DRDO

India TV News  

As many as 850 oxygen plants are being set up in various districts from the PM Cares Fund, DRDO chief C Satheesh Reddy said Monday, as India emerges from the second wave of coronavirus which caused a major medical oxygen crisis across the country. Reddy highlighted during the 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Discourse Series' by the Department of Science and …

India begins 'Extension of Hospitals' project to fight Covid
3 years, 6 months ago

India begins 'Extension of Hospitals' project to fight Covid

India TV News  

To plug a major health infrastructure gap in India's fight against Covid-19, especially in rural areas and smaller towns, India has started project 'Extension of Hospitals' in various states. Project 'Extension Hospitals' is one such initiative for which Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser invited private sector companies, donor organizations, and individuals to support the initiative along with various other …

Assam opens 300-bed Covid hospital in stadium; built in 20 days by DRDO
3 years, 6 months ago

Assam opens 300-bed Covid hospital in stadium; built in 20 days by DRDO

Hindustan Times  

The Assam government on Thursday opened a 300-bed Covid-19 hospital at a stadium complex in Guwahati to combat the ongoing pandemic. Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta inspects the Covid-19 hospital at Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati on Wednesday, a day before its inauguration. Set up in an area of 3,200 sq m, the hospital in Sarusajai Stadium has 200 beds in …

Jammu: DRDO sets up 500-bedded COVID makeshift hospital at Bhagwati Nagar in just 16 days under PM CARES Fund
3 years, 6 months ago

Jammu: DRDO sets up 500-bedded COVID makeshift hospital at Bhagwati Nagar in just 16 days under PM CARES Fund

India TV News  

Defence Research Development Organisation has set up a 500 bedded makeshift hospital on the reclaimed land of Tawi River at Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu to ensure the best possible patient care services to the Covid-19 patients. Of the total 500 beds at Bhagwati Nagar Centre, 125 would be Intensive Care Unit beds, while others would be a set of Covid …

Centre Responsible if Faulty Ventilators Procured Through PM CARES Cause Deaths: Bombay HC
3 years, 6 months ago

Centre Responsible if Faulty Ventilators Procured Through PM CARES Cause Deaths: Bombay HC

News 18  

In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court has said that it would be the responsibility of the Centre in case any faulty ventilators supplied by a Gujarat company through the PM CARES Fund caused the deaths of Covid-19 patients. After a submission by the Additional Solicitor-General of India Anil Singh, that a team of expert doctors from New Delhi …

Grief, suffering, financial distress—how the second wave devastated households
3 years, 6 months ago

Grief, suffering, financial distress—how the second wave devastated households

Hindustan Times  

Anupam Sharma hasn’t had the time to process the grief of losing her sister Alpana Sharma and brother-in-law Kamal Kumar to Covid-19. “We believe health expenditure will rise significantly because of the pandemic…Based on current trends, if 30% of the infected people get hospitalised and amongst them, 30% opt for private hospital and taking a conservative ₹1.5 lakh as the …

Covid Bed Facility In Indira Gandhi Hospital: Delhi High Court Directs Monitoring Of Project On Weekly Basis, Disciplinary Action For Lapse
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid Bed Facility In Indira Gandhi Hospital: Delhi High Court Directs Monitoring Of Project On Weekly Basis, Disciplinary Action For Lapse

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Principal Secretary of Health of the Delhi Government to personally monitor the progress of the project of making 250 covid bed Facility on Indira Gandhi Hospital on a weekly basis.A division bench comprising of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh also directed the aforesaid official to state reasons in the event …

Opinion | Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure
3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion | Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure

India TV News  

With the second wave of pandemic showing a marked decline, the number of daily fresh Covid cases across India fell to 2,08,921 on Tuesday, while 4,157 deaths were reported. Image Source : PTI Why India needs to improve its rickety health infrastructure Image Source : PTI Representative image of a COVID hospital in Bhagalpur, Bihar I think Soren made this …

Fear of Losing Loved Ones to Covid-19 Compels People to Buy Entire ICU Set up, NIV at Any Cost
3 years, 7 months ago

Fear of Losing Loved Ones to Covid-19 Compels People to Buy Entire ICU Set up, NIV at Any Cost

News 18  

Even as India is facing the vicious situation due to second wave of Covid-19, the pandemic has pushed the family members of infected patients to any extent to save the lives of their loved ones. Doctors in Karnataka’s capital city Bengaluru and other states have experienced that people are enquiring about buying an ICU set up or installing the same …

Medical Infrastructure In UP 'Delicate, Fragile & Debilitated': Allahabad High Court Suggests Measures For Improvement
3 years, 7 months ago

Medical Infrastructure In UP 'Delicate, Fragile & Debilitated': Allahabad High Court Suggests Measures For Improvement

Live Law  

Stressing that when Medical Infrastructure which couldn't meet the medical requirements of our people in normal times then it definitely had to collapse in the face of the present pandemic, the Allahabad High Court in Monday suggested several measures for the development of the medical infrastructure in the State. A Division Bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Ajit Kumar also …

PM Modi Nowhere in Sight As Govt Fails to Manage Covid Crisis, Alleges Rahul Gandhi
3 years, 7 months ago

PM Modi Nowhere in Sight As Govt Fails to Manage Covid Crisis, Alleges Rahul Gandhi

News 18  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Monday that the government has failed to manage the COVID-19 crisis and the prime minister is nowhere to be seen. "While GOI has failed not just in managing Covid crisis but also in standing with the people, there are numerous individual stories of strength and altruism every day," he said on Twitter. "Immense gratitude …

"Problem Is In Delhi As Both Centre & State Think It Is Theirs": Delhi High Court On Covid-19 Management In Capital
3 years, 7 months ago

"Problem Is In Delhi As Both Centre & State Think It Is Theirs": Delhi High Court On Covid-19 Management In Capital

Live Law  

Hearing a batch of pleas on various aspects of the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in the national capital, the Delhi High Court which has been hearing the pleas for nearly 3 weeks now, today remarked, "The problem is in Delhi because both Centre and State think Delhi is theirs." Rahul Mehra, responded stating that the Centre should not just …

Covid Prowls in Rural Bihar: Doctors Helpless, Hospitals Choked, Locals Turn to Quacks
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid Prowls in Rural Bihar: Doctors Helpless, Hospitals Choked, Locals Turn to Quacks

News 18  

As we walk into a rural health clinic at Khawaspur, just 20 kilometres from the district headquarters of Bhojpur in Bihar, a doctor is seen sitting helplessly. With a stethoscope and a few paracetamol and vitamin C tablets, he cannot do much for Covid patients frequently walking in. “People come here with cough and cold…they then go to Uttar Pradesh …

Government Hospitals run out of beds for COVID-19 patients
3 years, 7 months ago

Government Hospitals run out of beds for COVID-19 patients

The Hindu  

Madurai Almost all Intensive Care Units and oxygen-supported beds in Government Hospitals in the district are filled, pushing new patients to wait for their admission. A senior doctor from the Government Rajaji Hospital said almost all the 1,200 beds allocated for COVID-19 patients were occupied. Private hospitals were also referring patients in critical conditions to government hospitals, said S. Gandhimathinathan, …

Ghaziabad society launches free meal service for Covid-19 patients in home isolation
3 years, 7 months ago

Ghaziabad society launches free meal service for Covid-19 patients in home isolation

India Today  

As high-rises in the national capital region become Covid-19 containment zones, apartment dwellers at a society in Ghaziabad have come up with an initiative to provide free home-cooked meals to patients in home isolation. Shobhit Chitransh, Ujjwal Mishra, Sunjeet Malik, and Sharad Bhardwaj are among the good Samaritans who have taken care of meals for around 250 families in home …

Ramgarh hospital shifts patients for want of Covid drug
3 years, 7 months ago

Ramgarh hospital shifts patients for want of Covid drug

Hindustan Times  

Amid the rapid rise in positive cases across Jharkhand, both hospitals and individuals were facing shortage of basic drugs prescribed for treatment of Covid-19. Facing this problem, a private hospital in Ramgarh was recently forced to shift all its Covid-19 patients to other hospitals, officials said on Monday. HT Image Proprietor of Niramaya Das Health Care Centre in Ramgarh, Dr …

India COVID crisis: ‘We tried 15 hospitals before my mother died’
3 years, 7 months ago

India COVID crisis: ‘We tried 15 hospitals before my mother died’

Al Jazeera  

Despite having the money to pay for treatment, one family struggled to find a hospital bed for their 61-year-old mother who lost her life to the virus. “We knocked on the doors of at least 15 hospitals, tapped all our networks and contacts to organise treatment for my mother,” says Oberoi’s daughter, Vandana Paliwal, 38, a schoolteacher in West Delhi. …

Covid patients and families struggle as hospitals in Jodhpur run out of beds | Ground Report
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid patients and families struggle as hospitals in Jodhpur run out of beds | Ground Report

India Today  

With the second wave of Covid-19 raging on in Rajasthan, the biggest hospitals and Covid facilities in Jodhpur are running out of not just beds and staff but even stretchers and wheelchairs for patients. At Mathura Das Mathu Hospital, 62-year-old Ram Prakash was waiting in the lobby for six hours to get a bed for his mother. I have never …

Walk-in Admission of the Needy, 500 Oxygenated Beds: Delhi's Sardar Patel Centre Providing Care to Covid Patients
3 years, 7 months ago

Walk-in Admission of the Needy, 500 Oxygenated Beds: Delhi's Sardar Patel Centre Providing Care to Covid Patients

News 18  

Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre in Delhi’s Chhatarpur, which has 500 oxygenated beds, has been accepting patients since Monday. Established by Radha Soami Beas in association with South Delhi District Administration and Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the facility has been providing COVID-19 treatment, medicines, food and other facilities free of cost. The minister was informed that the capacity of the Sardar …

Coronavirus | Across India, a desperate hunt for COVID-19 care
3 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus | Across India, a desperate hunt for COVID-19 care

The Hindu  

As COVID-19 positive cases keep rising steeply across the country, in many States, patients and their relatives are put through the wringer literally, as they hunt for oxygen, beds, ventilators and ICUs. The district administration has designated 90 registered private hospitals in Patna for treatment of COVID-19 patients but most of them were forced to turn away patients by Tuesday, …

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