No COVID-19 deaths at RGGGH in 24 hours

For the primary time in a number of months, the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH), the biggest authorities tertiary care hospital in Tamil Nadu, recorded no deaths on account of COVID-19 for 24 hours.

Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan instructed reporters that deaths on account of COVID-19 amongst sufferers admitted to the federal government medical school hospitals in addition to establishments underneath the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services had been decreasing. “There was not a single death at RGGGH on Friday,” he stated.

RGGGH Dean E. Theranirajan stated the hospital recorded no deaths amongst COVID-19 sufferers from 8 a.m. on (*24*) 23 to eight a.m. on (*24*) 24.

He added that the variety of every day deaths on account of COVID-19 had come down slowly at the hospital due to a multi-disciplinary strategy.

This was the primary time in many months that the hospital, which has handled a excessive variety of COVID-19 sufferers since March, is reporting zero deaths.

Managing the sufferers

“We framed uniform protocols for management of COVID-19 patients based on three categories of the disease: mild, moderate and severe. We established zero delay in initiating care. Chest physicians, anaesthetists, internal medicine and allied specialists such as from neurology, cardiology and nephrology were designated as treatment coordinators, with separate teams working under them,” he stated.

Separate groups had been shaped to handle sufferers with diabetes and renal illness. They monitored blood sugar ranges, titration of insulin and remedy, he stated.

“We reviewed the deaths on a daily basis. This helped us to scrutinise the main causes of death among COVID-19 patients and take measures to prevent deaths. For instance, we noticed that dyselectrolytemia — imbalances in the electrolyte — in elderly patients. To address this, we involved the nephrology team and came up with a treatment protocol. Similarly, we have come up with treatment guidelines for patients with hypertension and COVID-19, coronary artery disease and COVID-19, and for those diagnosed with new onset diabetes,” he stated.

Noting that COVID-19 circumstances had declined by 50%, the Health Secretary stated, “For nearly a month-and-a half, the State was reporting COVID-19 cases in the range of 5,000 to 6,000 a day. This has slowly decreased. Now, on average, we are testing 80,000 samples, of which nearly 3,000 persons are testing positive.”

He stated complaints had been being obtained about non-public laboratories charging in extra for exams, and motion can be taken if laboratories didn’t adhere to the charge fastened by the federal government.

On 7.5% reservation

Asked whether or not the Governor in search of time to resolve on the 7.5% horizontal reservation for NEET-qualified authorities college college students would have an effect on medical admission counselling, Mr. Radhakrishnan stated the Central authorities performed counselling for the all-India quota seats individually.

“As far as Tamil Nadu is concerned, we will come up with the prospectus for MBBS after the decision,” he stated.

A multi-disciplinary group of docs of RGGGH, together with plastic surgeons, had handled two sufferers from Andhra Pradesh — a 30-year-old with facial accidents triggered in an animal assault and a baby with facial accidents on account of an accident.