Supporting the Centre's decision to order fresh mock drills in hospitals across the country to test their Covid preparedness, amid rising cases, former director of AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Randeep Guleria on Thursday said the drills would be a timely test of the prevailing healthcare infrastructure and keep people in the loop about an outbreak.
In March this year, the names of three doctors, short-listed by a search-cum-selection committee and subsequently approved by the Institute Body, the top decision-making body of the AIIMS, were sent to the ACC for final approval.
इंडियन रेडियोलॉजिकल एंड इमेजिंग एसोसिएशन (IRIA) ने बुधवार को बयान जारी करके यह साफ कर दिया है कि सीटी स्कैन से इतना डरने या घबराने की जरूरत नहीं है। एसोसिएशन ने डॉ. गुलेरिया के बयान को भी बढ़ा चढ़ाकर दिया गया बयान करार देते हुए उसे गलत बताया।
On Saturday, 20 patients died at Jaipur Golden hospital in the capital during a severe oxygen crisis. On Sunday, four patients at Gurgaonâs Kathuria hospital and four patients at Virat hospital in Rewari, both sout-west of Delhi, all died when the facilities ran out of oxygen. People line up bodies of those who died of Covid-19 at a crematorium in New Delhi. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP
After hospitals issued a number of warnings last week about their low oxygen supplies, some relatives of patients turned to sourcing oxygen themselves.
One man told NDTV he had stood in a long queue to fill a 10-litre oxygen cylinder for his 65-year-old father who was in Pentamed hospital in Delhi. Another relative said his brother had been in hospital for 10 days and the family was sourcing oxygen itself.