Peerless Hospital is now conducting around 15-20 surgeries and procedures a day, almost half of them on mild Covid patients with no pronounced symptoms. It has created a ward for them with 18 beds. “Since they had come to us for either treatment of other diseases or a surgery, we are going ahead with it unless Covid symptoms are very pronounced,” said Peerless Hospital CEO Sudipta Mitra.
Medica Superspecialty Hospital has stopped testing patients seeking admission for cardiac, renal, neuro or orthopaedic treatment unless they have pronounced symptoms. “We are being lenient especially in case of those who need a surgery even if it is an elective one. We are following government advisory and getting them under the surgeon’s knife unless they have a very strong symptom triggered by Covid,” said chairperson Alok Roy. Number of surgeries at Medica has gone up 20-25 a day from less than 15 last week.
Woodlands Hospital has not been cancelling any planned surgeries or postponing them because of patients’ Covid status. “We have established our protocol on doing safe surgeries with Covid positive status, similar to other infective diseases now,” said Rupali Basu, MD & CEO.
Others like RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, AMRI Hospitals, Belle Vue Clinic and Ruby General Hospital, however, are still desisting from surgeries and procedures on all Covid positives, barring emergency cases. At RTIICS, elective surgeries for asymptomatic patients with no co-morbities are being done two weeks after testing positive. For asymptomatic patients with co-morbidities, surgeries are being done after four weeks of testing positive. “No retesting will be done for all these cases between 14-90 days, unless they have fresh symptoms,” said RTIICS zonal head R Venkatesh.
Belle Vue and Ruby are going ahead with emergency procedures on patients testing positive. “The rest are being given a later date,” said Belle Vue CEO P Tondon. At Ruby, emergency surgeries like those on patients with multiple fractures are being regularly done. It has recently conducted a C-section on a Covid positive woman, said GM (operations) Subhashish Datta. It would be difficult to carry on normal operations if elective surgeries on asymptomatic patients are deferred, felt Mitra.
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