AIIMS OPD services to remain closed: On Friday(21/03.2020), the AIIMS had issued a circular deferring for all nonessential elective procedures and surgeries. only emergency life-saving surgeries would be direct. In simple words, All OPD services in All India Institute of Medical Sciences and all centers will remain closed from 24 March in the wake of the swelling coronavirus cases in the country, till further order.
Earlier, the Benaras Hindu University (BHU) on Sunday also announced that the OPDs of Sir Sunderlal Hospital has been postponed from March 23 till further orders.”In view of COVID-19, all OPDs of Sir Sunderlal Hospital has been postponed from March 23 till further orders,” said a BHU official.
The official (BHU) also said, “The isolated OPD will continue to run in emergency services and room number 103.”
“In continuation with earlier curricular of even number dated March 21, 2020, regarding temporary stoppage of routine walk in OPD patient’s registration in AIIMS, it has now decided that all OPD services (including special services) inter-alia all new as well as all follow-up patient’s registration in AIIMS Hospital and all centers will remain close with effect from March 24, 2020, till further orders,” the AIIMS said in a statement.
Meanwhile, The Union Health Ministry has asked hospitals and medical education institutes to procure the sufficient number of ventilators and high-flow oxygen masks and advised them to decrease gatherings on their respective premises.
The primary reason for the close of all AIIMS( All India Institute of Medical Science) OPD Services to redirects its resources to control the Covid-19 outbreak.
In other news, AIIMS building in Haryana’s Jhajjar will be used exclusively to treat COVID-19 patients, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General Balram Bhargava said here on Sunday.
The total number of novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 415 today after 30 fresh cases were reported, according to Health Ministry data. Maharashtra is the worst hit with 89 confirmed cases. Kerala has the second-highest number of cases at 67. COVID-19 has so far claimed two lives in Maharashtra. Delhi has reported 30 positive cases, while Uttar Pradesh records 25 cases.
