Kejriwal warns hospitals against ‘black marketing’
CAPITAL CONUNDRUM Covid patients being denied admission amid faulty allocation of beds, bad data keeping: CM
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There are a few (hospitals) that first refuse to admit a patient saying there are no beds and later... ask for ₹5-8 lakh...we will end this › business of black marketing of beds Those who are asymptomatic should refrain from testing... if they also start lining up for testing, then no matter how many centres we open, it will still not be enough
nNEWDELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal served a stern warning to private hospitals on Saturday, accusing some of them of lying about the number of beds they had for patients of the coronavirus disease and promising tough action against health facilities that, he said, were engaged in extortionist practices during the public health crisis — comments that came against the backdrop of a spate of reports and social media posts detailing difficulties people faced in hospital admissions.
Kejriwal said the Delhi government would issue an order making it mandatory for hospitals to admit and treat patients who were in moderate to serious condition even if Covid-19 tests hadn’t been conducted on them or test results were still awaited.
By evening, the order was out mandating that “no patient who is having Covid-19 symptoms and is in moderate and severe category be denied admission on the pretext that the patient is not having Covid positive report.” All such patients should be kept in the Covid suspect patient area till the test report is received. “Accordingly, if found positive, then she/he shall be kept in the Covid hospital and otherwise transferred to non-covid hospital for further management,” the order read.
NEWDELHI: The Delhi government on Saturday issued guidelines for the clinical management of patients with coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in state-run and private hospitals across the city.
The guidelines state that Covid-19 patients with fever, sore throat and headache but no co-morbidities be given paracetamol for the fever and anti-allergy medicine for symptomatic
ARVIND KEJRIWAL, Delhi chief minister
Experts say all asymptomatic people with a high risk of infection should be tested because their chances of infecting the most vulnerable are higher. Kejriwal himself had said in April that Delhi would go for ‘mass testing like South Korea’ treatment. Those with mild pneumonia are to be given antibiotics and paracetamol. Those with severe pneumonia have been advised oxygen along with antibiotics including azithromycin along with antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
The “clinical management protocols for adult patients with confirmed Covid-19 infection” were drafted by doctors at Maulana
Azad Medical College as a standard operating protocol, according to an office memorandum issued by the state health secretary Padmini Singla.
Patients who develop sudden respiratory problems or go into multi-organ failure have to be admitted to the ICU (intensive care unit) and placed on ventilator support if needed, according to the guidelines.