100-bed facility earmarked at Sector 48 Civil Hospital

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 6

A 100-bed facility at the Civil Hospital, Sector 48, has been earmarked for isolation and treatment of people affected by Covid-19 if all 250 beds at the dedicated Covid facility at the PGI are occupied, said UT Health Secretary Arun Gupta.

The psychiatry patients at the hospital have been shifted to the Mental Health Institute of Chandigarh and surgery patients to the Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32.

The 250-bed facility at the Nehru Hospital Extension (NHE) block of the PGI became fully functional on Friday. As many as 12 positive patients are already undergoing treatment at the block.

The quarantine facility for the PGI healthcare workers has also been arranged. They will be accommodated in various private wards/guest houses of the institute and facilities provided by the UT Administration.

Patient undergoes hemodialysis at PGI

One of the Covid-positive patients, who is on ventilator, was admitted to the ICU of the Nehru Hospital Extension block yesterday after he suffered renal shutdown. He then underwent hemodialysis and his condition is stated to be stable.

Covid is a disease caused by a novel corona virus (SARS CoV-2), is currently a pandemic, which produces high morbidity in the elderly and in patients with associated comorbidities. Chronic kidney disease stage-5 (CKD-5) patients on dialysis [maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)] are also vulnerable group because of their existing comorbidities. These patients are, therefore, not only more prone to acquire infection, but also develop severe diseases as compared with general population.

There will be three situations of patients who require dialysis; patients already on maintenance dialysis, patients requiring dialysis due to acute kidney injury (AKI) and patients critically-ill requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).

Docs donate one-day salary

Keeping in view the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGI has decided to contribute one-day salary (Rs2.15 crore) of all categories of PGI employees towards the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES).