Patna: The surge in Covid cases among doctors and students has encouraged medical colleges and hospitals to take steps that aim to limit the spread of the virus.
PUSNA MEDICAL COLLEGE AND Hospital (PMCH) Dr.
VP Choudhary on Monday ordered Covid’s compulsory test from all MBBS 2019 Batch and 900 dormitories students who lived in seven hostels.
He said even though the exact number of doctors, students and staff who had been tested positive for Covid were unknown, some students who lived in the hostel had complained of problems such as cough and headaches and tests needed.
The PMCH Dr.
Inspector was Thakur said a woman a woman admitted in the gynecological department tested positive and shifted to the Covid ward.
Following the Covid virus detection in a number of medical students, Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) Dr.
H L Mahto ordered the suspension of all offline classes from UG and PG courses until further orders.
However, online class will continue.
After holding a meeting with the head of the department, he said, “because conventional class teaching poses the threat of the spread of the virus, it was decided to start an online class to ensure the completion of the course on time.” Dr.
Mahto said the overall sanitization of the entire campus was being carried out while a hosteller was asked to be tested alone.
There are around 500 dormitories in five hostels there.
Superintendent Nmch Dr.
Binod Kumar Singh said the infected number of Medicos was shot up to 96 on Monday afternoon.
They included 80 students of MBBS and 16 doctors.
Overall six Medico was reported positive in Igim here.
Dr.
Manish Mandal’s Igims supervisor said a PG student among them had returned after his marriage.
He has been asked to be isolated and get his wife and other people in the family tested by a virus.
He said, even though only eight positive patients received by IGIM, 100 beds were provided for covid patients there.
It includes 50 beds for children.
With four more doctors in the AIims-Patna test positively, the number of infected health workers there rose to six, the nodulus officer said the Covid Dr.
Sanjeev Kumar.