Bengaluru: Some doctors and nurses above the hospital in Bengaluru have contracted Covid-19 infection or are contacts of infected people at home or at work.
They were on leave, producing an acute crisis of staff at the hospital.
The situation is like a health facility experienced during the second wave, and the doctor said they were now burdened with work.
While Covid-19 cases in OPD hospitals are mostly light, increasing online consultation has added workload.
Dr.
Sudarshan Balli, Chair, Manipal Hospital, confirmed that more and more hospital staff were testing positive.
“At Manipal Hospital, we have several dozen staff who test positive,” said Dr.
Ballal.
“Higher infections among administrative staff than medical ones such as doctors and nurses.
However, no one has a severe infection.” At Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road, 10 staff including doctors, technicians and nurses have tested positive for a week final.
“We are very careful and do tests only when someone has symptoms,” said Dr.
Sahana Govindaiah, Director, Medical Services, Apollo Hospitals Bengaluru.
“Infected staff contacts are also being tested, but so far have not been affected by work in the hospital.” At the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Sciences and Research Cardiovascular (SJICSR), 20 staff have been tested positively in the last four days.
These include five doctors, three nurses, girls and data entry operators.
Dr.
Ballal’s vaccine protection said the health worker scenario was ill because Covid-19 in the first wave was different from the second and third wave.
“In the first wave, many work in hospitals contracted infections and some must be received for maintenance too,” said Dr.
Ballal.
“At that time, an understanding of the disease and how it spread was limited, and no one had vaccine protection.
However, in the second wave, health workers were mostly vaccinated.
Now, there is a surge again, but no one needs care so far in the ICU.
“Dr.
CN Manjunath, Director, Sjicsr, said that if health workers have been given a dose of booster in November, they will be more protected in front of the third wave.
On Wednesday, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has raised concerns over the health of the doctor in the midst of the third wave.
Colleagues test positively and the increasing number of infected people appearing in the OPDs resulting in general practitioners must stretch their working hours.
“We take all the precautions and many have captured the infection,” said a doctor from a company hospital, who had avoided infection for the past two years.
“Mentally drain it.
It is sad that we return to the second wave scenario.” More more student infections from Siddagaga Institute of Technology in Tumakuru are positively tested for Covid-19 on Friday, taking the total number of students infected up to 19, even when District reported a quadrupled increase in new cases.
Eight students are contacts from 10 students who initially tested positive.
Tumakuru reported 96 cases on Friday.