Local doctors speak on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in India
LOS ANGELES - As COVID-19 rages across India, the staggering health emergency there is reverberating all the way to Los Angeles.
The country halfway across the globe from Los Angeles is in dire need of physicians. On Friday, I spoke to doctors who were born in India but immigrated to the U.S. They are torn wanting to offer medical help to India, yet knowing they can’t travel there during the surge.
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Both physicians practice medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Pooja Nawathe and Dr. Dechu Puliyanda expressed deep concern for loved ones in India. While they have family in the United States, they are still tied emotionally to India. Both their mothers live there.
Express News Service
MADIKERI: A 30-bed Dedicated Covid Healthcare Centre (DCHC) will be inaugurated at a private hospital in Gonikoppal to provide improved treatment to COVID patients free of cost. The DCHC has been established following efforts by the Karuna Trust – a charitable trust that has enabled integrated rural development.
The facility will start functioning from May 15 at Lopamudra Private Hospital in Gonikoppal. “The facility will have 15 beds with pipelined oxygen, five beds with oxygen concentrators and 10 beds with Bipap machines (a type of ventilator),” explained Venkat Chekuri, joint secretary of Karuna Trust.
He explained that the facility has seen the light of day following efforts from Kodava Koota members in the US, Concerned Citizens of Coorg organization members and members of Kodava Samaj who have raised funds alongside Karuna Turst to establish the DCHC. The centre will have a pharmacy and lab facility and will be a high dependency unit.