BENGALURU: With staff, including doctors in many private hospitals going into quarantine, day-to-day operations in many private hospitals are badly hit.
A War Room bulletin issued on Sunday evening stated 18 healthcare workers in the city are infected, but sources in the private healthcare sector say at least 20 doctors have tested positive in Bengaluru alone.
Doctors TOI spoke with said Bengaluru is fast going the Mumbai way. In Maharashtra, healthcare staffers catching the infection had disrupted management of the pandemic.
Given the risks, PPE has been made mandatory for everyone — from security guards to directors — in hospitals where staff are in quarantine.
At a leading private hospital in Indiranagar for instance, a doctor tested positive and about five key staffers had to go into quarantine. Two patients at Rangadore Memorial hospital tested positive, the latest on Sunday.
“Staff besides two doctors, who treated the patients, are now in quarantine. This is likely to become a routine phenomenon with community spread in place and asymptomatic carriers becoming silent spreaders,” said Dr Rajkumar R, medical director, Rangadore Memorial hospital.
Forty-nine staff at St Martha’s hospital were quarantined earlier, but all tested negative. “Our staff were quarantined long ago and they are back to work now,” said Dr Shashikanth R, medical officer, St Martha’s hospital. “We have three Covid-19 cases patients in the hospital and their condition is stable. We have set up a 16-bed ward each for suspected and confirmed cases of Covid-19. All patients are screened first in the flu clinic as a safety measure.”
A well-known rheumatologist is down with Covid-19 and in the ICU in a private hospital. The only possible exposure the doctor could have had to the virus was his patients, none of who showed any Covid-19 symptoms, sources said.
A War Room bulletin issued on Sunday evening stated 18 healthcare workers in the city are infected, but sources in the private healthcare sector say at least 20 doctors have tested positive in Bengaluru alone.
Doctors TOI spoke with said Bengaluru is fast going the Mumbai way. In Maharashtra, healthcare staffers catching the infection had disrupted management of the pandemic.
Given the risks, PPE has been made mandatory for everyone — from security guards to directors — in hospitals where staff are in quarantine.
At a leading private hospital in Indiranagar for instance, a doctor tested positive and about five key staffers had to go into quarantine. Two patients at Rangadore Memorial hospital tested positive, the latest on Sunday.
“Staff besides two doctors, who treated the patients, are now in quarantine. This is likely to become a routine phenomenon with community spread in place and asymptomatic carriers becoming silent spreaders,” said Dr Rajkumar R, medical director, Rangadore Memorial hospital.
Forty-nine staff at St Martha’s hospital were quarantined earlier, but all tested negative. “Our staff were quarantined long ago and they are back to work now,” said Dr Shashikanth R, medical officer, St Martha’s hospital. “We have three Covid-19 cases patients in the hospital and their condition is stable. We have set up a 16-bed ward each for suspected and confirmed cases of Covid-19. All patients are screened first in the flu clinic as a safety measure.”
A well-known rheumatologist is down with Covid-19 and in the ICU in a private hospital. The only possible exposure the doctor could have had to the virus was his patients, none of who showed any Covid-19 symptoms, sources said.
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