Udupi District Hospital sealed down after Doctors, other staff members test positive for COVID-19
Udupi: The Udupi District Hospital has been sealed down for three days after several staff members at the hospital including two doctors tested positive for the Coronavirus on Wednesday. According to the details, two doctors, a nurse, and two other staff members of the hospital have tested positive for the virus.
The development has led to widespread scare of the virus spreading in the district. The authorities, taking note of the incident have ordered sanitization of the hospital premises and hence have sealed down the hospital for three days.
Emergency wards, isolation wards, and fever clinics, however, will work as usual during the time.
District Surgeon Dr. Madhusudhan Nayak said that entry to normal patients will be barred for three days as the hospital will undergo sanitization but emergency patients will be admitted to the hospital. He also added that all the doctors and staff members of the hospital will undergo COVID-19 testing and those who have already tested positive for the virus have been sent to quarantine.
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Doctors, professors barred from private practice during work hours: Min Sharan Prakash Patil
Bengaluru: Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil on Monday has warned that the government will take strict legal action on doctors or professors of teaching hospitals who were found carrying out private practice during their working hours.
Dr. Patil, in response to a question by Congress member Balkis Banu, said that the government had implemented a salary system based on biometric attendance, as it had received complaints of teaching hospital doctors and professors carrying out their private practice skipping work at the hospitals. The doctors and professors are required to attend to their duties at the hospital between 9 am and 4 pm, and have to mark their attendance through the biometric system four times a day, at 9 am, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm, the minister has clarified before the House.
The minister said that the state government would soon start Bone Marrow Aspirate and Trephine Biopsy (BMAT) institutes at Mysuru and Hubballi to examine cancer cases in children. He added that officers Indira Gandhi Children Hospitals have been directed to establish BMAT.
The data presented before the House stated that over 1,500 children below 14 years are diagnosed with cancer.
