‘Install Aarogya Setu app if visiting BHU hospital’

TNN | Apr 30, 2020, 04:03 IST

Varanasi: The Banaras Hindu University administration has advised all those visiting the university hospital for emergency services to install the Aaryogya setu App in their mobile phones.
BHU spokesperson Rajesh Singh said that all the patients and attendants should enter the hospital premises only with protective gears like face masks or scarfs and carry their identity proofs.
BHU authorities including rector Prof VK Shukla, director of the IMS Prof RK Jain, medical superintendent of SSL Hospital Prof SK Mathur, professor-in-charge of Trauma Centre Prof SK Gupta, Covid-19 nodal officer Prof Jaya Chakraborty and others held a meeting on Tuesday.
Prof Shukla said that the IMS is all set to handle the Covid-19 cases as well as general patients in emergency.
Meanwhile, the district administration has also sought the services of staff from the BHU, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith and Sampurnanad Sanskrit Universityto look after the makeshift quarantine centres meant for the migrant labourers arriving in a large number.