INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, March 26
Eight suspected coronavirus patients have been kept in isolation wards of Patan Hospital and Sukraraj Tropical and
Infectious Disease Hospital.
Out of the suspected COVID-19 patients, three have been kept in STIDH, which has also been providing treatment
for two confirmed COVID-19 patients
Five suspected COVID-19 patients are kept in isolation ward of Patan Hospital
Director of STIDH, Sagar Kumar Rajbhandari said five people, including his own staff were discharged from quarantine of the hospital today
after their test results came negative
Eleven people are still being kept in the hospital quarantine.
Rajbhandari said the hospital was keeping them in quarantine after they
requested the hospital authority saying that they had elderly people or people with pre-existing medical condition in their homes.
The
hospital has kept 20 intensive care units ready for COVID-19 patients.
Hospital Director Dr Bishnu Prasad Sharma said his staffers had put
arrow signs in different parts of the hospital to remind the suspected COVID-19 patients to avoid contact with other patients or their own
family members to reduce risk of infection from COVID-19 on the hospital premises
&Hospitals and health professionals can not solely tackle the pandemic
Everybody needs to help the government to fight against the disease,& said Dr Sharma.
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