Ahmedabad: Emergency services, OPD resume at LG Hospital

TNN | Updated: Apr 29, 2020, 08:00 IST

Each patient will be screened thoroughly before he enters this non-Covid hospital

AHMEDABAD: LG hospital, which was closed after 17 doctors tested Covid-19 positive, once again resumed its OPD and emergency services on Tuesday. Each patient will be screened thoroughly before he enters this non-Covid hospital.
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) commissioner Vijay Nehra said that about 10 days ago, 17 doctors, five nursing staff and two patient care persons were found to be Covid-19 positive and even some of the orthopaedic patients were found to be infected with the coronavirus.
The hospital was closed. After three-layer deep cleaning and fumigating the entire hospital and even the doctors rooms for the past one week, the OPD and emergency services resumed functioning from Tuesday morning.
However, the orthopaedic treatment will not be given at the hospital as a corona positive patient had come in the orthopaedic department, and majority of the doctors from this department were infected.
The AMC commissioner said that though this was a non-Covid hospital, the doctors and staff would have to wear PPE kits, and as soon as the patient arrived at the hospital, he would be sanitized. “The staff will screen the patients thoroughly before referring them to different departments for further treatment,” Nehra said.