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Private hospitals to reserve 50% of beds under government quota for COVID patients Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A BBMP health worker collecting swab samples for COVID-19 tests in Bengaluru on Monday. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K. As the number of COVID-19 cases reported crossed the 10,000 mark on Sunday, the State government conducted a round of talks with the Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA) on Monday and asked them to reserve 50% of their beds for COVID-19 patients. The association agreed to this. The government and the association came to an agreement for such allocation within a week, said K. Sudhakar, Minister for Health and Family Welfare. ....
Karnataka’s private hospitals run out of Remdesivir Updated: Updated: COVID-19 patient needs six doses Share Article Private hospitals are reporting an acute shortage of Remdesivir, widely used to treat COVID-19 patients. The shortage, mainly faced by small and medium-size hospitals, has prompted the Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA) to write to the State Health Department requesting that the injection be supplied through the Karnataka State Drugs Logistics and Warehousing Society. Currently, the government supplies this drug to private hospitals only when patients are referred by the government through Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST). Each patient requires six doses of the 100 mg injection of which two are given on the first day followed by one dose for the next four days. ....