The State government has sanctioned an exclusive Siddha Care Centre for treating COVID-19 patients in Tiruchi district.It will come up on the city campus of Bharathidasan University at Khajamalai with
NIT hostel to be made COVID care centre
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Average daily count of patients testing positive has gone up to 800 from 500
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Average daily count of patients testing positive has gone up to 800 from 500
TIRUCHI As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, health officials in Tiruchi have reached out to educational institutions to establish more beds to accommodate patients with mild symptoms.
The National Institute of Technology (T) is among the institutions approached by the officials to establish centres for treating COVID-19 patients. Facing the pressure of creating oxygen supported beds, a team of officials visited the NIT premises on the outskirts of the city a few days ago and studied the possibilities of converting the hostel with oxygen supply.
Yatri Nivas turns COVID care centre again
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The Yatri Nivas on Panchakarai on the banks of the Kollidam in Srirangam has been converted again into a COVID care centre.
The move assumes importance in the wake of a steep rise in number of positive cases in Tiruchi over the last three weeks. The management of Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam, which owns the facility situated on 6.40 acres, has made it available to quarantine, asymptomatic and mildly infected patients.
After the city campus of Bharathidasan University at Khajamalai and Government College of Engineering at Sethurapatti, which served as COVID care centres in March last, were converted ino care centres again, opinion was divided on using Yatri Nivas, a popular pilgrim guest house, for treating COVID-19 patients.
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Patients unhappy over lack of basic facilities at care centres
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The COVID care centre at Khajamalai Campus of Bharathidasan University in Tiruchi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit:
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As fresh cases of COVID-19 continue to surge, health authorities have set up two more COVID care centres in Tiruchi. But there are concerns over lack of basic facilities at the venues.
The Nehru Memorial College at Puthanampatti near Thuraiyur and Kurinji Engineering College near Manapparai are the new centres identified to accommodate patients. It is learnt that each of them can accommodate 120 to 150 patients. The hostels used by boys were identified to convert them as care centres. It was aimed at accommodating patients with mild symptoms belonging to the surroundings of Manapparai and Thuraiyur at the new centres. They were in addition to the two centres established in Tiruchi such as the city campus of Bharathidasan University at Khajamalai and Gover