Tag: Covid Hospital

An incident exposing the distressing status of health care system in the State has been reported from a Covid hospital in Nabarangpur where the body of a covid-19 patient was left unattended for over eight hours. 

Puri: A special Covid hospital will be established soon under PPP mode in Puri, informed the district collector Samarth Verma. “Apart from the present 145 bedded hospital for treatment of…

Chaos unfolded at the Vijay Vallabh COVID care hospital in Maharashtra's Virar after a major fire broke out in the hospital in the wee hours of Friday. At least 14 Covid patients including 6 women who were in the ICU during the incident perished in the flames. While some 90 patients were admitted to the hospital at the time of the incident, their friends and family members kept waiting outside the hospital worried about their health update. Distressing visuals of people mourning the loss of their loved ones have come to the fore.

Bhubaneswar: Their sacrifices are camouflaged behind their stoic faces, but ever so often it spools up under the weary eyelids & rolls down their cheeks. The doctors and health workers in Odisha, who are spending days away from their loved ones fighting the pandemic on the frontlines, at times find it hard to fight their […]

Bhubaneswar: Despite a steep rise in confirmed cases of Coronavirus across the country, Odisha did not report a single positive case in the last 48 hours. Despite this, Odisha continues to ramp up its hospital capacity and today urged people not to take things lightly and follow the lockdown guidelines seriously. Responding to media queries […]

Surat/Bhubaneswar: A migrant worker from Odisha’s Ganjam district infected with n-CoV succumbed to the disease on Monday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Surat, Gujarat. The deceased Krushna Gobinda Bisoyi (27) is a resident of Baduka village under Dharakote block in Ganjam district. He was reportedly tested positive for the virus on May 11 […]

Balasore: Palpable tension prevailed at Balasore COVID hospital after some nurses staged a demonstration today. The nurses were demanding immediate COVID-19 test as two of their colleagues tested positive recently. According to the agitating nurses, they were forced to stage a demonstration as the authorities denied COVID test. “Already two of our colleagues have tested […]

Koraput: In view of the rising number of coronavirus infection cases in the tribal-dominated Koraput district, local MP Saptagiri Ulaka has proposed to upgrade the building of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Sunabeda into a full-fledged Covid hospital for providing better treatment to the Covid-19 patients. Fearing that the unexpected increase of patients in Covid […]

Bhubaneswar: With coronavirus cases crossing the 2,000 mark in the State capital, Odisha government on Monday opened another dedicated COVID-19 Hospital here, an official said. An existing hospital – Aditya Ashwini Hospital in Chandrasekharpur area – has been converted into a dedicated COVID-19 hospital increasing the total beds in the DCHs in the city to […]

Ganjam: At a time when doctors and health workers are earning applauses worldwide for tackling the Coronavirus pandemic from the front, several incidents of allegations of medical negligence on part of the hospital authorities & medical staff continue to be a concern in Odisha. Two families of Ganjam district have brought serious allegations against the […]

Bhubaneswar: Laxmikant Behera and Biswajit Mohanty, who were arrested by the Commissionerate Police for allegedly posting an audio clip of their conversation about the experience at a COVID hospital on social media platform, were granted bail by Bhubaneswar SDJM court on Wednesday. Soon after their bail, they were released from the jail. However, the entire […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today approved the reimbursement rates that private hospitals may claim from the government for treating COVID-19 patients in the state. As per the approved rates, Odisha government will pay a maximum of Rs 18,000 per COVID-19 patient per day. These reimbursement rates were communicated by the Health Department letter to all Collectors, […]

Cuttack: Another dedicated COVID-19 hospital will be made operational in Cuttack in the next couple of days to further bolster the health infrastructure in the district, informed Cuttack Collector, Bhabani Shankar Chayani on Tuesday. After a high-level review meeting chaired by the Cuttack district COVID observer, Saurabh Garg, the district Collector informed that the dedicated […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Health department on Monday directed all collectors, municipal commissioners, CDMOs and PHOs to reactivate government and private Covid facilities across the State. “In view of the rapid…

Bhubaneswar: With the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack witnessing an alarming rise in Covid cases over the past few days, senior BJP leader Bijoy Mohapatra today pointed at the crumbling healthcare services citing how Covid-infected patients are struggling to find hospital beds even during emergency situations. At a time when infections are rising putting […]