Bharuch/Surat: Various social organizations, individuals, political leaders have come forward to help Covid-19 patients and their families in whatever manner they can in industrial town Bharuch, Ankleshwar, Vagra and Jambusar.
J C Nahar Jaycees oxygen bank was launched early this week by JCI, Ankleshwar chapter to provide oxygen concentrators to home quarantine covid patients. Around 20 such concentrators have already been distributed to the needy apart from providing tiffin services for the home isolated patients. Every day 300 tiffins are delivered to needy patients by Khodal Yuva Mandal, said Deepak Nahar, past national president of Jaycees.
An oxygen cylinder service has been started by the youth group at Palej.
Surat: The two homeopathy doctors who are accused in a case of black-marketing of remdesivir injection have been ordered to work for 15 days in the ICU ward at Covid-19 hospital in New Civil Hospital (NCH). The two will be on duty in different shifts.
On Thursday, a local court had ordered Dr Hitesh Dabhi and Dr Sahil Ghoghari to serve for 15 days at the Covid-19 ward of New Civil Hospital (NCH) while granting them bail.
“The accused will be assigned duties at the ICU ward of Covid-19 hospital. The court has ordered intensive work hence the two will be work in the ICU. They will have to take care of patients under supervision of the in-charge doctors,” said Dr Onkar Chaudhary, chief medical officer, NCH.
Surat: Two of the biggest Covid-19 hospitals in the region the New Civil Hospital (NCH) and the Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER) have closed their gates to new patients on Wednesday. This, the administrations attribute to the acute shortage of oxygen supply.
Despite having beds and necessary infra to handle even critical patients, these hospitals have turned their backs on severely infected patients only to avoid a crisis-like situation in managing patients already under treatment there.
Till Monday, many ambulances were bringing in Covid-19 patients round the clock. But with the oxygen crisis taking a sharper turn, the situation has become difficult even for the government hospitals to manage patients, majority of whom arrive requiring urgent oxygen support. Earlier, Indian Medical Association (IMA), Surat, which had sought supply of 230 MT oxygen for government and private hospitals in the city alleged that nearly 20 percent less oxygen w