NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, MAY 27
The number of coronavirus cases in Gujarat crossed the 15,000-mark and rose to 15,205 on Wednesday after 376 new infections were reported, while the toll increased to 938 with the death of 23 more patients, 19 of them in Ahmedabad, the state health department said.
‘હું પણ કોરોના વોરિયર’ અભિયાન અંતર્ગત વિખ્યાત ગુજરાતી કલાકારો દ્વારા વિશેષ પ્રસ્તુતિ.#HuPanCoronaWarriorhttps://t.co/1Ggr9Ee2gX
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) May 27, 2020
Gujarat, one of the states worst hit by the coronavirus, has seen significant improvement in the case doubling rate over the last two weeks, it said.
Ahmedabad alone reported 256 new coronavirus cases, Surat 34 and Vadodara 29, out of a total of 19 districts that reported new cases on Wednesday, it said.
અમદાવાદ મ્યુનિસિપલ કોર્પોરેશનની એક નવી પહેલથી જનજીવન વધુ સામાન્ય થશે
જ્યાં એક બાજુ લોકો NEW NORMAL જીવનશૈલી અપનાવી રહ્યાં છે, ત્યાં બીજી બાજુ જનજીવન ઝડપથી સામાન્ય થતું જોવા મળે છે.@PMOIndia @CMOGuj @drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias @ibijalpatel #LifePositiveCoronaNegative pic.twitter.com/lKeT4x89P8
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) May 27, 2020
Out of the 26 COVID-19 fatalities, 19 were reported from Ahmedabad, two from Surat and one each from Vadodara and Mahisagar, the health department said.
As many as 410 patients were discharged in the state, taking the number of recoveries to 7,547, it said.
આ છે, ભાવનગર જિલ્લાના વતની લાભુબેન, કોરોનાના કારણે થયેલા લૉકડાઉનમાં ચોક્કસ શરતોને આધીન હવે મનરેગા યોજના હેઠળ કામ ચાલુ થતા તેમને રાહત થઇ છે, રોજગારી મળી રહેતા લાભુબેનને રાહત થઇ છે, અને તેઓ સરકારનો આભાર માને છે. pic.twitter.com/SdATveNY4C
— PIB in Gujarat 🇮🇳 (@PIBAhmedabad) May 27, 2020
Of these, 327 patients were discharged from Ahmedabad alone, while 30 were discharged from Surat and 11 from Vadodara, it said.
With this, there are a total of 6,720 active cases in the state, of which 98 are on ventilator, the department said.
The case doubling rate in the state increased to 24.84 days as compared to 16 days two weeks ago, it said.
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As against this, the national case doubling rate is 13.97.
The number of cases in Ahmedabad has risen to 11,097, while in Surat and Vadodara, the tally stood at 1,421 and 914, respectively. A majority of the deaths were also reported in these three districts.
While 764 patients have died so far in Ahmedabad, 65 have succumbed to it in Surat and 36 in Vadodara, the department said.
#GujaratFightsCovid19 #CoronaWarrior pic.twitter.com/dNpMGdkZO0
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) May 27, 2020
Total 3,52,319 individuals have been quarantined in various districts of the state. Out of which 3,43,027 are home quarantined and 9,292 are in facility quarantine.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases: 15,205, new cases: 376, deaths: 938, discharged: 7,547, active cases: 6,720; people tested so far: 1,93,863.
VS Hospital board members seek HC help to use health facility to full strength
Following the Gujarat High Court’s observation on May 22 that approximately 700 beds in VS Hospital can be utilised for treating COVID-19 patients, representatives on the board of management of the health facility urged the court’s intervention so that the charitable hospital can be used to its full strength to treat COVID patients, The Indian Express reports.
A division bench of the HC had proposed the AMC to explore the feasibility of using the 700 beds “at the earliest”.
According to The Indian Express, VS Hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Manish Patel said, “I am not aware of the HC order or any discussion in this regard. The board of management cannot meet anyway owing to the lockdown. But if required, we have the necessary staff and other arrangements available that can be utilised for COVID treatment here.”
After media reports cited that the AMC has said that it cannot run two Covid-19 hospitals from the same campus, the donor families’ representatives, who are on the board of management of the hospital, issued a press note, saying, “At a time when Ahmedabad, like other urban metros, is in dire need of lakhs of hospital beds for infected patients, such a statement reeks of irresponsibility. The state government-run Civil Hospital has three hospitals for Covid patients operating within the same campus… In fact having patients located on the same campus facilitates all logistics of emergency care and timely response. The SVP Institute located on the same campus as the VSH needs to work in tandem and provide services to the poorest of Ahmedabad. Even these in combine will be wholly inadequate to meet the challenge of the emerging crisis.”
The hospital’s request comes at a time when several private hospitals have refused to come on board to treat Covid patients or continue to negotiate with the AMC on the treatment charges.
Mayor Bijal Patel who is also the chairperson of the board of management refused to comment on the plans to reopen VS Hospital while adding “the (municipal) commissioner will speak on this.”
Calls to the officer on special duty for AMC area Rajiv Gupta, as well as municipal commissioner Mukesh Gupta, remained unanswered, reports The Indian Express.
