Triaging point set up near TVMCH
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This will ensure early and right treatment to COVID-19 patients
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Collector V. Vishnu at the triaging point set up at Gandhimathi School near Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SHAIKMOHIDEEN A
This will ensure early and right treatment to COVID-19 patients
District Collector V. Vishnu has created a triaging point at Gandhimathi School near Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital to screen and segregate COVID-19 patients based on their health condition on arrival. “If patients arriving here are asymptomatic and stable, they will be given COVID-19 kit having vitamin tablets, zinc tablets and kabasura kudineer packets and sent for home quarantine. If they have mild symptoms, they will be taken in vehicles stationed here to the COVID Care Centres being manned by team of qualified doctors and nurses. If they are in need of oxygen, then they will be admitted to the Tirunelveli Me
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Close to 1500 beds are ready to treat patients, who tested COVID-19 positive, in the government medical college hospital and at three other COVID-19 care centres, said Collector V Vishnu here on Tuesday.
After inspecting the facilities at the hospital, he told reporters that at the Tirunelveli Government Medical College Hospital (isolation ward/block) can take in 1,240 patients, Government Siddha Medical College (200), Swami Sivanandha Charity Centenary Hospital Pathamadai (110) and GH Koodankulam can accommodate 115 patients.
There was no need for panic but the public needed to be cautious. He said that ₹ 29.76 lakh had been collected by way of fine from violators since March 1. The objective was not to penalise or inconvenience the people but it was a message to others to follow rules.