Updated May 14, 2021, 1:14 am IST
Admissions to the hospital were stopped, except in cases of patients with severe symptoms who might need intensive care
Tims lacks adequate staff, be it doctors, nurses, or patient care attenders, and that has been hampering services to patients. (Photo: File/PTI)
Hyderabad: Faced with a staff shortage and plagued by repeated problems with pressures in oxygen supply lines, which together have been resulting in at least three to four deaths which doctors describe as avoidable if the management of the hospital was up to scratch the Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (Tims) has effectively shut the door on Covid-19 patients.
Staff crunch adds to TIMS’ Covid blues
Updated May 12, 2021, 10:42 am IST
This newspaper learnt that one of the factors for the deaths of patients every day at Tims is lack of staff
With four ICUs, one with 38 beds on the ground floor, and three more on the first floor with 25 beds each, staff work in three shifts taking care of the patients. However, there is just one nurse, one patient care worker, and one doctor in each shift for each of the ICUs. PTI file photo
Hyderabad: There appears to be no end to the woes of Covid-19 patients at Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (Tims), at Gachibowli. First, it was the lack of good quality food, and then extremely delayed delivery of food to the patients.
Ventilators sent by PM Care lying unattended in premier hospitals
Updated May 10, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Lack of staff and technicians in several government hospitals in Telangana is creating a serious situation of stocked up ventilators
Many ventilators provided by the PM Cares fund need small repairs but as the government hospital lack staff and technicians ventilators and other medical supplies not being able to be put to use and eventually turning waste. (Representational Photo: PTI)
HYDERABAD: Lack of staff and technicians in several government hospitals in Telangana is creating a serious situation of stocked up ventilators and other medical supplies not being able to be put to use and eventually turning waste.
TIMS gets new triage unit; plans afoot for more oxygen beds DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Updated May 8, 2021, 9:39 am IST
These units will attend to Covid-19 patients instead of making them wait in ambulances, till the time a bed becomes available
As soon as a Covid patient arrives in an ambulance, he or she will be taken into the triage and put on oxygen and provided appropriate treatment. Representational image/PTI
Hyderabad: Emergency construction of a triage unit at Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (Tims) is almost complete and a similar temporary unit will also be built in the next few days at the Gandhi Hospital.