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With the severity of the corona infection and the rising mortality rate, the government has declared all hospitals across the country as covid hospitals.
The structural arrangement of the three-tier Covid Hospital being implemented for corona treatment has also been scrapped.
A meeting held in the presence of Health and Population Minister Bhanubhakta Dhakal and officials of the Incident Command Center on prevention and control of Covid 19 has decided to cancel it.
Ministry spokesperson Dr. According to Jageshwar Gautam, all the previously classified hospitals including Level One, Two and Three have been converted to Covid Hospital.
It has been decided that all types of hospitals with regular service flow should also provide services to corona infected patients. ‘An earlier decision has been overturned.
Central, teaching, provincial, district hospitals and private ones have all been converted into Covid hospitals, ”he said. With this decision, all the hospitals across the country will treat the corona infected. Both Covid and Non-covid services have to be managed separately.
Corona positive cases are increasing in the Terai districts including Kathmandu Valley. There is a tendency for critically ill patients not to get hospital beds and to stay in bed without symptoms.
From now on, it has been decided to admit only those infected with symptoms to the hospital. Gautam informed. ‘Asymptomatic infections need to be referred to home isolation and institutional isolation.
Only those with symptoms have been notified to be admitted to the hospital. Gautam said.At present, 138 corona infected people are being treated in the ICU. There are 15 people on the ventilator.
More than 13,000 actively infected
Corona infection has been confirmed in 743 people in the last 24 hours. The total number of infected people has now reached 32,678. Of them, the number of active infected is 13,725.
The Kathmandu Valley has been found to be the most infected so far on Monday. A total of 224 people have been confirmed infected, including 177 in Kathmandu, 33 in Lalitpur and 14 in Bhaktapur.
With the growing number of infected people, the government and the private sector are ready to carry out coordinated treatment. Former Chief Specialist of the Ministry of Health and Population Dr. Sushil Nath Pyakurel said that it would be easier to fight against corona infection with the support and cooperation of all parties including the government and the private sector.
Currently, there are 7 districts with more than 500 infected districts. Only Mustang and Humla have zero infected. The recovery rate from the infection is 58 percent. So far, 18,806 people have been discharged. A total of 157 people have died from the corona infection so far.
