by: Navjeevan Express

COVID-19: After HC order, Civil Hospital OSD briefs CM on patients’ care

NE NEWS SERVICE

GANDHINAGAR, MAY 29

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday took stock through video-conference of the conditions of the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, the city’s prime COVID-19 facility, in the news recently after the High Court said conditions there were “pathetic” and “worse than a dungeon”.

Rupani spoke to doctors, nurses and patients, inquired about facilities at the 1200-bed COVID-19 hospital, and was given a detailed briefing by Civil Hospital OSD MM Prabhakar, a state government release said.

Dr. Prabhakar informed the Chief Minister that patients get all the facilities, including ventilators, for treatment as per the guidelines of the Union Ministry of Health.

The Civil Hospital accounts for a sizable number of the 798 deaths due to COVID-19 in Ahmedabad district so far.

Earlier, Prabhakar had said the high death count at Civil Hospital was due to patients coming late to the facility for treatment.

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COVID-19 tally goes up to 15,944; death toll nears 1K-mark

With 372 new patients found in Gujarat since the previous evening, 253 of them in Ahmedabad district, the number of coronavirus cases in the state rose to 15,944, said a release by the Health Department on Friday.

Twenty patients succumbed to the infection during the period, taking the death toll in the state to 980, it said.

The state government also announced that it had so far conducted 2,01,481 COVID-19 tests as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines.

 

608 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered patients to 8,609, the release said.

468 patients recovered in Ahmedabad district alone, followed by the 35 in Surat and 18 each in Kutch and Vadodara.

Of the 372 new cases, 253 were found in Ahmedabad district alone.

Other districts where a significant number of cases were reported were Surat (45), Vadodara (34), Gandhinagar (eight), and Mehsana and Chhota Udepur (seven each).

Of 20 patients who died since Thursday evening, 18 persons died in various hospitals of Ahmedabad while two died in Surat.

11,597 coronavirus cases have been reported in Ahmedabad district, followed by 1,510 in Surat and 981 in Vadodara.

The majority of deaths were also reported in these three districts: 798 in Ahmedabad, 67 in Surat, and 39 in Vadodara.

Out a total of 2,01,481 RT-PCR tests carried out in the state, 15,944 were positive and 1,85,537 negative.

People quarantined in Gujarat total 2,72,409, of where 2,64,312 are home quarantined, and 8,096 in government facilities.

For the past couple of days, more and more positive cases have been reported outside of Ahmedabad, Surat, and Vadodara, signaling the increasing spread of the virus across the state.

Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 15,944, new cases 372, deaths 980, discharged 8,609, active cases 6,355 and people tested so far 2,01,481.

Ahmedabad district cases climb to 11,597

As 253 new coronavirus positive cases were reported in the last 24 hours, the number of patients in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat climbed to 11,597, the state health department said on Friday.

Of the total of 20 people, who succumbed to the infection in Gujarat during this period, as many as 18 died in Ahmedabad city alone, it said in a statement.

As many as 608 patients were discharged from hospitals across Gujarat during the day, of whom 468 were from Ahmedabad alone.

The virus has so far claimed 980 lives in the state, of which 798 were from Ahmedabad district. Eleven of these deaths were reported in rural parts of Ahmedabad district, while 787 others were from the city.

As many as 236 of the 253 new positive cases were reported in Ahmedabad city, while 17 belonged to the rural areas of Ahmedabad district.

Similarly, out of the total 11,597 cases registered in Ahmedabad district so far, as many as 11,396 were from the city, while 201 others were reported in other parts of the district.

State to pay Rs.25 crore from CM Relief Fund to Railways

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has ordered the officials to pay Rs 25 crore the Railways towards the transportation cost of migrant labourers as per the directives of the Supreme Court as well as the Gujarat High Court.

Ashwani Kumar, secretary to the Chief Minister said, “Rs 25 crore will be paid from the CM’s Relief Fund. Gujarat has operated the maximum number of Shramik Trains i.e 971 to send 14.13 lakh migrants workers back home amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Out of 971 trains, 557 have been sent to UP, 230 to Bihar, 83 to Orissa, 37 to Jharkhand, 24 to Madhya Pradesh, and 17 to Chattisgarh. All safety protocols were observed in the journey.”