COVID-19 | Coimbatore Medical College Hospital opens waiting area with oxygen supply
The Hindu
New facility established within three days after witnessing patients in need of oxygen support waiting in ambulances
The Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on May 16 opened a waiting area with oxygen supply to avoid making patients requiring oxygen support wait in ambulances outside the COVID-19 ward. The hospital administration built an annex to the COVID-19 outpatient ward with 15 beds, each having a portable oxygen concentrator. CMCH Dean A. Nirmala said that patients who are brought to the hospital with immediate requirement of oxygen support will be first admitted to the new facility. The medical team in the waiting area will stabilise the patients and shift them to the COVID-19 ward when oxygen bed requirement arises, she said.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
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