With an increasing number of non-Covid patients being admitted in the emergency department of the AIIMS here, hospital authorities have suspended routine OPD admissions in general and private wards for two weeks. However, routine OPD services to enable patients seek medical advice and counselling, which were recently resumed will continue. (Archana)
To accommodate the increasing number of serious non-COVID patients in the emergency department of the All Indian Institute of medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, hospital authorities have suspended routine OPD admissions in general and private wards for next two weeks.
However, routine OPD services to enable patients seek medical advise and counselling, which were recently resumed will continue, AIIMS Medical Superintendent, Dr D K Sharma, said.
"In view of the need to optimise usage of available inpatient beds for hospitalisation of seriously ill emergency/semi-emergency patients, it has been decided to temporarily stop routine OPD admissions to general wards as well as private wards in AIIMS hospital and all centres with immediate effect for a period of two weeks which will be reviewed after that," a circular issued by Sharma said.