Hyderabad: Gandhi Hospital has converted to for only COVID 19 Treatment center

Hyderabad: The State government has converted Gandhi Hospital into an exclusive Covid care facility from Saturday.
The move comes in the wake of extreme pressure from Covid positive patients and their relatives from across Telangana for hospital beds and healthcare facilities, following the surge of Covid infections during the second wave of the pandemic.
From Saturday, all the casualty emergency and outpatient services at Gandhi Hospital will be halted, in addition to postponing elective surgeries that were scheduled to be taken up in the coming days by other medical departments in the hospital.
At present, there are over 450 critical Covid patients who are admitted at Gandhi Hospital and need ICU and ventilator care. On Thursday, the hospital witnessed close to 150 Covid related admissions, which forced the decision to convert the hospital into Covid-only facility. Senior health officials said that the inpatient block of the hospital was already packed with Covid positive cases.