No More COVID Admissions at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute
The Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute will no longer be admitting COVID-19 patients.;
Puducherry: The Puducherry Health Department has decided that the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute will no longer be admitting COVID-19 patients. Instead, all such patients will be admitted to the Government Hospital for Chest Diseases, Gorimedu.
This decision of the Health Department comes as an attempt to revive the normal functioning of the outpatient departments of the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Research Institute.
The decision was taken after the Chief Minister's directive to the department to revive functioning of outpatient units and the overall functioning of the college. The medical college remained the main centre in providing treatment to virus infected patients during the first and second waves.
"Only a few patients are remaining at the medical college. We have stopped new admissions. Already 22 patients have been admitted at GHCD for COVID-19 treatment," a senior Health Department official told media persons from The Hindu.
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