With no COVID-19 cases at Nizamia, patients seek resumption of non-COVID services
By Mohammed Hussain| Updated: 12th December 2020 5:03 pm IST
Government Nizamia General Hospital in Hyderabad. Photos: Mohammed Hussain
Hyderabad: With no cases of COVID-19 being reported at the Nizamia Hospital, which functioned as a level-1 quarantine center since March, patients with different ailments are seeking non-COVID medical services to resume for their in-patient treatment. The hospital has remained vacant for more than four months now.
Popularly called the Unani Hospital or Charminar Dawakhana, Nizamia hospital is the only Unani hospital in the city that shut its regular services after the Ministry of AYUSH turned it into a level-1 quarantine center. Only eight others in the city, all of them state-run—including Gandhi Hospital, TIMS, King Koti Hospital, Fever Hospital, Chest Hospital, Ayurveda Hospital, Nature Cure Hospital and Homeo Hospital—were turned to specialized COVID-19 hospitals in March.