New Delhi: The latest adviser by the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) in Covid-19 testing says patients without symptoms undergoing surgical or non-surgical procedures should not be tested unless guaranteed or to symptoms.
This also applies to pregnant women in labor treated in hospitals for delivery.
However, many doctors have opposed the idea.
“Patients who recognize, who may be asymptomatic and covid-positive, can quickly infect other patients, hospital staff and doctors, further reducing vital labor that has been reduced,” Dr.
Anoop Misra, Chair of Fortis C-Doc.
Misra added that such patients can have worse results than any surgical / invasive procedures.
“If they admit, the hospital can immediately turn into a Covid-19 hotspot,” he said.
Dr.
SN Nundy, a gastrointestinal surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said, “We have to follow the ICMR guidelines.
But my view is that if it is an elective operation, it must be postponed.
In terms of emergency surgery, we must continue without waiting for the test results for Save the patient’s life.
“A senior doctor at the Apollo Hospital said they were still testing patients received for operations for Covid-19.
“There has been no change in our guidelines,” he added.
Dr.
Sachin Amekkar, Head of Laparoscopic Surgery and Metabolism at Moolchand Hospital, said the conditions in which operations were needed in their own frightening complications of the health and life of patients.
“In addition to surgical diseases, if the patient experiences a viral infection, of course increasing the inflammatory response in the body, then makes it difficult for their health,” he added, emphasizing the need for testing.
“Omicron variants are stealth viruses because they do not provide the expected symptoms in many patients.
However, patients are infected and operators.
Other side effects of such decisions can be a Covid-19 outbreak among health care workers involved in the patient’s care.
This can Leading in a serious labor crisis.
The peposititivity ratio in health workers in the current wave is more than 50%, “another doctor said.