The Patliputra Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) has made Covid test mandatory for all in-door admission of patients besides those coming at Central emergency for treatment.
The decision has been taken following instructions from State health authorities and henceforth all patients would have to undergo Covid test then only would be treated in-doors.Even those coming in central emergency would have to get tests conducted said PMCH Principal Dr Shailesh Kumar to media persons here.
The initial test was from TrueNAT and if the patients were found positive then a second test would be conducted by the RT-PCR kit for confirmation, said Kumar.
It's worth mentioning that the daily foot fall at PMCH outdoor is in between 500 to 700 Patients in outdoor wards and out of those several are given in- door admission depending upon the requirements. The number of critical cases at Central emergency is not much but keeping in view the rising threat of Corona among the treating doctors and paramedical staff the arrangements have been made , said Kumar.
In another move the PMCH authorities have been directed to conduct a minimum of 120 tests via TrueNAT kit in a day. The instructions have been passed on by Dhanbad deputy commissioner toPMCH authorities.