Govt may convert Charminar Dawakhana into COVID-19 hospital
By Mohammed Hussain Ahmed| Updated: 7th May 2021 1:07 pm IST Government Nizamia General Hospital in Hyderabad. Photos: Mohammed Hussain
Hyderabad: Charminar Dawakhana is one of the biggest hospitals in old city of Hyderabad with large number of beds. Currently, the hospital is treating asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. In critical cases these patients are being referred to the COVID-19 hospitals.
A doctor of Charminar Dawakhana, on the condition of anonymity, said that the hospital was converted into COVID-19 level 1 treatment center last March and senior Allopathy doctors were allotted to treat COVID-19 patients. Later on, it was turned into an Isolation center.
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