Despite a gradual decline in the prices of RT-PCR testing kits in the market, the government has not lowered the cost of the Covid tests at private hospitals and labs since May 2021.
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The health directorate has asked all private Covid-19 testing laboratories to stop running sample collection booths outside hospitals that have been set up for outgoing passengers to foreign destinations. "The allegations of providing fake Covid-19 certificates and charging additional money through cheating people have been proved in the primary investigation," said a circular
With the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 getting bigger, inadequate high-flow oxygen support at public hospitals has become a serious cause for concern.
Proper oxygen support for a critical Covid patient could be a matter of life and death and experts have put the blame squarely on the government for not being ready despite getting a year to prepare.
Since the beginning of the pandemic more than a year ago, experts have been insisting on adequate high-flow oxygen support at hospitals through a device called high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC). The devices are for patients whose oxygen saturation levels plummet due to the coronavirus infection.