Covid Hospital

Common Blood Thinning Drugs Reduce Risk Of Covid Hospital Deaths: Study

World News | Marthe Fourcade, Bloomberg | Friday February 12, 2021

Blood-thinning drugs reduced the risk of death from Covid-19 in a new study, pointing to one more promising tool as physicians scour their medicine cabinets for treatments to blunt the pandemic.

3 Patients, Doctor Die In Ukraine COVID Hospital Fire

World News | Reuters | Thursday February 4, 2021

Three intensive care patients and a ward doctor died overnight in a fire a hospital treating coronavirus cases in Zaporizhzhya, southeastern Ukraine, the region's governor said on Thursday.

Migrant Workers At Bengal's Covid Hospital Wards Seek Job Security

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Monday January 25, 2021

Migrant workers hired by the West Bengal government to assist patients in COVID-19 wards at public hospitals protested on Monday outside the Health Department after some of them were released from duty because the number of patients has declined and the vaccine is here.

UK Reactivates Emergency Covid Hospitals, Closes London Primary Schools

World News | Reuters | Saturday January 2, 2021

Britain reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the coronavirus.

After Power Cut, 3 Patients Die At Covid Hospital In Bhopal: Sources

Bhopal News | Written by Anurag Dwary | Saturday December 12, 2020

Three patients died after an hour-long power cut at a multispecialty hospital in Bhopal that is treating COVID-19 patients, sources have said. After the power cut at 6 pm on Friday, the backup generator maintained by the Public Works Department (PWD) did not work and power was restored only at 7 pm, they said.

Delhi's LNJP Hospital Becomes First In Country To Treat 10,000 Covid Patients

Delhi News | Written by Sukirti Dwivedi | Friday December 11, 2020

The Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital announced on Thursday that it has successfully treated over 10,000 patients since it was declared a dedicated coronavirus facility. The announcement from the hospital drew praise from Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who said that it was the highest number of recoveries fro...

Extremely Pained By Deaths Due To Fire At Rajkot Covid Hospital: PM Modi

Cities | Press Trust of India | Friday November 27, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed deep pain at the loss of lives in a fire at a Rajkot hospital, and said the administration is ensuring all possible assistance to the families of the victims as well as those who were injured.

5 Patients Killed In Fire At Covid Hospital In Gujarat's Rajkot

Cities | Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Arun Nair | Friday November 27, 2020

Five patients have died after a fire broke out in the ICU of a designated COVID-19 hospital in Gujarat's Rajkot in the early hours of Friday.

Bengal Covid Patient Comes Home Days After Being Declared Dead

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday November 22, 2020

In a bizarre incident, an elderly coronavirus patient was brought back home in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district by his family members, a week after they received "his body" from a COVID hospital and cremated it.

Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital Removed From List Of Designated COVID Hospital

Delhi News | ANI | Wednesday October 14, 2020

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC)-run Hindu Rao Hospital, where resident doctors are agitating over non-payment of salaries, was on Tuesday removed from the list of designated COVID-19 hospitals in Delhi.

Covid Hospital Services Smooth Amid Power Cut, Assures Mumbai Civic Body

India News | Reported by Puja Bharadwaj , Edited by Nandini Gupta | Monday October 12, 2020

Reassuring citizens that Mumbai's unprecedented power supply failure this morning did not affect the treatment of coronavirus patients, civic body BMC said all its hospitals have automatic diesel generators and that they would "cooperate with private hospitals as required".

Doctors Of Delhi COVID-19 Hospital On Strike Over Non-Payment Of Salaries

Delhi News | Written by Sukirti Dwivedi, Edited by Stela Dey | Sunday October 11, 2020

Resident doctors and nurses of Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital have began a strike today over non-payment of salaries for the last four months. For the last several weeks, 220 resident doctors and about 300 nursing staff have stopped working at the COVID-19 dedicated hospital.

Heavy Overnight Rains Flood Mumbai's Nair Hospital, A Covid Facility

India News | Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Nandini Gupta | Wednesday September 23, 2020

The Nair Hospital, a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in central Mumbai, has been flooded after heavy overnight rainfall in the Maharashtra state capital, which has reported more than 45,000 cases coronavirus cases till now.

COVID +ve Sexual Offender Falls While Escaping From Hospital, Dies: UP Cops

Cities | Press Trust of India | Saturday September 12, 2020

A man accused in a sexual assault case, who was admitted to a COVID hospital in Badaun after testing positive for coronavirus, died of injuries that he suffered while trying to escape from the facility by jumping out of a window of an isolation ward, an official said on Saturday.

First Dedicated COVID-19 Hospital In Kerala Inaugurated

Kerala News | Press Trust of India | Thursday September 10, 2020

The first dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Kerala, built by the Tata Group, was inaugurated in Kasargod on Wednesday by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who said it was an excellent example of how Public Private Partnership can be put to good use.