Coronavirus | Chennai’s largest triaging centre for COVID-19 opens

The Greater Chennai Corporation launched a triaging centre for COVID-19 sufferers on the Island Grounds on Saturday.

This is the largest triaging centre within the metropolis, screening a minimum of 1,000 sufferers earlier than they’re despatched to tertiary care hospitals, COVID care centres or dwelling isolation.

Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash stated, “This facility will ease the pressure on the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and the Government Stanley Hospital. Mild, moderate and asymptomatic cases need not crowd hospitals. We are mulling over setting up one more centre.”

Special coordinator M.A. Siddique stated the triaging centre will begin with 600 sufferers per day and improve to 1,000 in three days. “The number of active cases is more than 33,000 in Chennai. It is likely to increase to 60,000 during the peak. This centre will help us manage the peak,” he stated.

As Chennai is registering over 6,000 instances each day, sufferers are prone to be taken to non-public medical faculty hospitals on town’s outskirts for therapy. Over 4,000 COVID-19 sufferers within the metropolis are receiving therapy at tertiary care hospitals just like the RGGGH, Stanley Government Medical College Hospital, the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, the federal government hospital at Omandurar property and personal hospitals. Over 30,000 residents who’ve examined optimistic for COVID-19 are in dwelling isolation. Over 320 docs are being deployed by the civic physique to deal with sufferers in dwelling isolation. The Corporation is planning to gather a high quality of ₹2,000 from sufferers who violate dwelling quarantine norms. At least 1,000 extra oxygen beds can be readied at non-public medical faculty hospitals on town’s outskirts for COVID-19 sufferers.

“Teams of IAS officers and health professionals are inspecting five private medical colleges on the city’s outskirts to check availability of oxygen beds for COVID-19 patients,” an official stated.