PUNE: Sassoon General Hospital and Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial (YCM) Hospital — the biggest dedicated Covid-19 hospitals (in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad — have resumed treatment of non-Covid patients.
“Even though we have not formally opened our facility for non-Covid treatment, patients have started coming in.
We also have diverted our staff from Covid duties.
Only ICU staff are on Covid duty owing to a few remaining cases,” Sassoon dean Muralidhar Tambe told TOI.
Tambe said mucormycosis was a worry, with over 200 patients treated at Sassoon.
“We have not got any breather even though Covid cases have reduced,” he said.
Sassoon has treated over 9,000 Covid cases since March 2020.
Meanwhile, Pimpri Chinchwad civic chief Rajesh Patil said they have started non-Covid OPD for general patients from June 1.
“YCMH still treats Covid patients, but general patients too have been allowed,” he said.
The Annasaheb Magar Stadium jumbo unit, which had closed in the fourth week of May, has become operational with 200 beds to take some pressure off YCMH, he said.
Pune: Non-Covid care resumes at Sassoon, YCM hospital
