The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said Wednesday that the Outpatient Department will be temporarily suspended. The hospital decided to use the available hospital beds for emergency or semi-emergency sick patients. Starting Wednesday, the OPD will be closed for the next two weeks.
“In view of the need to optimize the use of available inpatient beds for the hospitalization of critically ill emergency / semi-emergency patients, it has been decided to temporarily halt routine admissions to OPD,” the hospital said in a statement. release.
“Emergency patients who require hospitalization in general rooms or those patients who recommended hospitalization in private rooms due to emergency / semi-emergency conditions, will continue to be admitted,” the statement said.
The coronavirus pandemic has put pressure on the healthcare sector like never before. The healthcare sector is at the epicenter of this unprecedented global pandemic challenge, the industry body Ficci said in its report.
The deadly new coronavirus has infected more than 1.74 lakh people in the national capital since the outbreak. The death toll from the virus rose to 4,444.
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