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DRDO supplies oxygen cylinders to Gandhi Hospital
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Centre will assist TS govt in pandemic management: Kishan Reddy
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Centre will assist TS govt in pandemic management: Kishan Reddy
Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy handed over 50 oxygen cylinders supplied by the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) to Gandhi Hospital Superintendent M. Raja Rao here on Sunday.
Mr. Reddy thanked Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and DRDO chairman G. Satheesh Reddy for immediately responding to his request and converting the nitrogen cylinders used for missile development into oxygen cylinders. Another 50 cylinders will be coming in tomorrow, he said and urged citizens to help the governments break the transmission chain by practising social vaccine of wearing masks, maintaining social distancing and hang hygiene.
Shortage of Remdesivir delaying treatment, keeping beds blocked
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Bed availability impacted in some hospitals; drug supply likely to ease in a week
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Bed availability impacted in some hospitals; drug supply likely to ease in a week
Shortage of Remdesivir is having a direct impact on the availability of beds in some corporate and private hospitals. Since it has been taking two days or more for many people to lay their hands on the drug vials, treatment of COVID-19 patients is dragging, keeping them in hospitals for longer periods, said a senior government official. In such a scenario, beds are not unable to be freed up for new patients.