New Delhi: This is not just an air trip.
The negative results of RT-PCR are a necessity even if you want to undergo surgery planned in most hospitals today.
Some, like Apollo, also mandated family members / officers who live inpatient to have the negative results of RT-PCR.
The hospital said these steps were taken considering the increasing Covid incidence in the city.
Dr.
Priyadarshini Pal Singh, who heads emergency and critical care in Apollo, said each and everyone who visited the hospital was filtered and if someone was found to have covid symptoms, they were referred to the flu clinic.
Dr.
H S Chhabra, the director of the center of Indian spinal injury, said they had a covid and non-covid path which was completely separated in the hospital so there were no robbery in any way.
“It is mandatory to follow all Covid protocols at any time in places – disciplined masks, hand sanitization and surface, thermal screening and social distance and there is appropriate monitoring to ensure compliance,” he added.
During the first and second waves, several hospitals reported the Covid outbreak.
This caused fear between patients and many people suffering from non-covid diseases, including cancer, visits suspended to hospitals for operations and follow-up.
Dr.
Singh from Apollo said they had not seen a decline in non-covid patients, but it was possible that this might occur if the case continued to increase.
“We must try and separate the two as much as possible, but, frankly, if the kasing rises quickly and substantially, there is little that hospital can do.
Hopefully, it doesn’t happen because there is too much delay and lack of treatment of non-non-problems Covid for the last two times because of fear and doubt, “he added.
Dr.
Rajesh Malhotra, Professor and Orthopedic Chief in AIIMS who also headed Trauma Center, said hospitals run the risk of being a place where infection can quickly transmit, given a large number of visitors, who recognize patients, many of which suffer from some comorbidity.
Therefore, he added, efforts must be made to prevent crowding and ensure appropriate Covid behavior among hospital staff, patients and their servants.
“We have a protocol in our department where screening for symptoms is done and documented as a declaration of self by each staff member who comes to work,” said Dr.
Malhotra.