Patna: Amid surging COVID-19 cases in the country, the Bihar government has made it mandatory for passengers coming to Patna from three Indian states to produce negative PCR reports on arrival in a move aimed at checking spread of the coronavirus. The government also made it clear that the PCR reports should not be older than 72 hours.
Such test reports have been made mandatory for people coming from Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab, the Indian states worst affected by COVID-19. The Patna district magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh has even shot off a formal letter to the Patna airport director asking him to inform the airport authorities of these three states about the new advisory so that passengers travelling to Bihar carried the copies of “No Covid” reports with them before boarding the flights to Patna.
Patna hospitals face oxygen cylinder shortage amid Covid surge
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Patna hospitals face oxygen cylinder shortage amid Covid surge. Image Source: IANS News
Patna, April 15 : The mounting number of Covid cases has resulted in a shortage of oxygen supplies at several hospitals in Patna.
The city s major facilities including Patna Medical College and Hospitals (PMCH), Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) and AIIMS are full with Covid patients as a result the smaller hospitals and nursing homes are treating the non-Covid patients. But they have been facing the challenges in obtaining the oxygen cylinders from the companies.
A Medical Superintendent of a private nursing home at Raja Bazar said that his hospital has referred many patients to bigger hospitals of the city due to irregular oxygen supplies by the companies.