Hyderabad: The twin inclusion strategies of like Covid foreign patients in all state hospitals and house-to-house fever admissions have helped reduce hospital admissions, health officials said Thursday. ‘Due to fever recordings and Covid OPs, we quickly identify individuals with symptoms and treat them through the Covid kits and monitoring their health status. This has led to a decrease in the demand for hospital beds, ”said Dr. G Srinivasa Rao, director of public health (DPH), said.
Over the past one week, the Department of Health has Covid outpatient services screened 5,055,204 individuals and identified 1,07,329 individuals with Covidsoos symptoms. As part of fever surveys, 24,885 medical teams have so far visited more than 70,000 households across the country.
Director of Medical Education (DME), Dr K Ramesh Reddy, has urged doctors in private hospitals to be judicious when using oxygen and prescribing medicines such as Remdesivir. ‘We occur in cases where doctors unnecessarily take medicines such as Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, etc. Prescribe. Consequently, relatives of patients walk from pillar to post in search of this medicine. “I call on private hospitals to be judicious while using oxygen and do their best to safely wean patients recovered from oxygen support,” said Dr Reddy.
Source: Telangana Today