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‘More children likely to be infected in third wave’ May 20, 2021 Experts call for setting up of paediatric task force to take necessary precautions Patients gasping for breath, relatives desperately looking for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders – these are some of the images that come to our mind when we think of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. Even as the country grapples with the steady spike in the number and severity of infections, senior paediatric experts and health consultants feel the third wave could turn serious for children, unless infrastructure is ramped up and adequate caution put in place. Paediatric task force ....
Several private hospitals have finalised deals for Covid vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Russian-made Sputnik V - and the consignments are expected to start coming from next week, officials of the healthcare units said on Tuesday. Only a handful of private hospitals are now administering Covid vaccines. Tens of thousands of vaccine recipients are waiting for other healthcare units to receive supplies and resume the vaccination drive. The drive has remained suspended at most private vaccination centres since May 1 because of lack of supplies. The private centres now have to directly procure doses from the manufacturers. Most hospitals were communicating with the manufacturers Serum Institute of India for Covishield and Bharat Biotech for Covaxin for over a month, but the companies were not promising supplies. ....
India News: KOLKATA: Tweets by a Kolkata doctor narrating a man’s final farewell to his Covid-affected mother who was on her death bed in a Kolkata hospital h. ....
The patient passed away 12 hours after the video call. KOLKATA: Tweets by a city doctor narrating a man’s final farewell to his Covid-affected mother who was on her death bed in a city hospital has touched a chord and triggered a tsunami of emotional posts on Twitter from hundreds who have lost a loved one but never had the opportunity to bid adieu. Today, towards the end of my shift, I video called the relatives of a patient who is not going to make it. We usual… https://t.co/8IrIMu0jIG Doctor (@DipshikhaGhosh) 1620818139000 On Wednesday, critical care doctor Dipshikha Ghosh of Apollo Gleneagles made a video call like she had done many times during the year-long pandemic to connect critically ill patients with their family members on request. It helped them get closure. The calls were discreet and though some of them were very emotional, Ghosh had always been composed while handling them. ....
A private hospital organised a Covid-19 vaccination drive for individuals with autism on Saturday, most of whom struggle to wait for long and get “anxious in a crowd”. Apollo Gleneagles Hospital administered the first dose of Covishield to individuals with autism in the age group of 19 to 35 years from four centres in the city that work with such persons. Waiting in a crowd, maintaining physical distance and masking up for hours is a challenge for individuals with autism, said those working with children and individuals with autism. The two-hour window saved individuals with autism and their parents or guardians the hassle of waiting in long queues. ....