Vadodara: As state-run SSG Hospital has started witnessing a rise in infants and children getting infected with Covid-19, Central Gujarat’s biggest government hospital has set up an emergency room for such patients.
Sources said that the paediatric department of SSG Hospital has started getting six to eight paediatric cases a day in the last couple of days. In most of these cases, samples of such paediatric patients tested positive of Covid-19 in RT-PCR tests.
Of these cases, some of them had severe pneumonia while in one or two cases, infants born just fortnight ago have developed Covid-19 infection. “Everybody including those who were critically have been saved,” said Dr Minoo Patel, advisor to officer on special duty at SSG Hospital.
“The paediatric department had submitted a proposal to set up an emergency room, a kind of enclosure, of eight beds with oxygen points ready at the ground floor with provision of ventilators so that any such emergency can be handled. This has been set up by the department,” he said.
Currently, there are three paediatric patients who are hospitalized at SSG. They have been kept in a separate enclosure in Covid-19 building.
“We are keeping the emergency room reserved so that Covid-19 paediatric patients who really require critical care can be admitted there,” he said.