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Dr Mahesh Maskey’s advice to govt: Convert private hospitals into COVID-19 hospitals

KATHMANDU, May 1: Public health expert Dr Mahesh Kumar Maskey has suggested the government to convert as many as medical colleges and private hospitals into COVID-19 designated hospitals to contain the further spread of the novel coronavirus disease in the country.  Talking to Ratopati, Dr Maskey also added that operating COVID units in private hospitals alone is not enough to tacke the pandemic. “Government is preparing to run corona units in the private hospitals, which will not address the situation either. Therefore, private hospitals and medical colleges should be converted into COVID hospitals at the earliest,” he added.   At a time when the health ministry is saying that it can not provide beds to corona patients any longer amid the massive surge in new infections, Dr Maskey has furnished five different tips to the government so that the second wave of the virus triggered by the new variant can be controlled.    Five suggestions of public health expert maskey to combat second wave of coronavirus:  1. Turn as many medical colleges and private hospitals into COVID-19 dedicated hospitals  temporarily for two months, so that enough beds are available with oxygen support at this critical period. The reason why people become serious and need ICU is because of delay in getting admission, oxygen and simple medicine like dexamethasone. 2. Equip the ward leadership with transportation and access to corona beds so that each ward can take care of patients needing hospitalization 3. Home isolation and institutional isolation be established and supervised with the help of health professionals and phone calls in each ward. 4. All people entering Nepal be quarantined for 14 days and tested when symptoms appear.  5. Testing and contact tracing be done with new vigour particularly to rule out UK and Indian variants.

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Six private hospitals administering COVID-19 vaccines in Valley - Khabarhub

KATHMANDU: Private hospitals are also administering COVID-19 vaccines to curb the increasing cases of COVID-19 in the country.

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India recorded 22,775 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday

KOLKATA, India, Jan 2: India on Saturday reported 22,775 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, health ministry data shows, adding to concerns for authorities around the country about the rising number of cases. The data indicates that thickly populated metros, such as the national capital New Delhi, financial centre Mumbai and Kolkata in the east, are seeing some of the sharpest rises. In the eastern state of West Bengal, infections rose to 3,450 in the last 24 hours with at least 1,950 cases reported in Kolkata, the capital. Sixteen Omicron cases have been reported in West Bengal. Kolkata's municipal corporation declared 17 micro containment zones in residential clusters where more than 5 infections have been reported. People living in the zones are not allowed to leave the area to try to contain the spread of the disease. Ajoy Chakrobarty, the state's director of health services, said he was holding meetings with private hospitals to ensure health facilities are ready to deal with the rising number of cases. India witnessed a devastating second wave of COVID-19 last year when the daily average number of new cases peaked at around 400,000. Caseloads had dropped significantly since then. For many months the national tally remained well under 10,000 cases a day. Now, officials and medical experts fear the Omicron variant might fuel a third wave of the disease.

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Finance Minister Sharma approves Rs 5 billion to purchase vaccines

KATHMANDU, July 14:  The government has granted the permission to the Ministry of Health and Population to spend Rs five billion for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. Newly appointed Finance Minister Janardan Sharma took a decision to this effect shortly after assuming his office.   The new government formed under the leadership of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Tuesday announced to ensure COVID-19 vaccines to the all eligible citizens as its very first decision in the office.  The government has a target of administering the vaccines against coronavirus to one third of population by coming mid-October and to all eligible people by mid-April.  The COVID-19 inoculation drive has been affected in the absence of the sufficient supplies of the vaccines. The Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday evening agreed to provide risk allowance to front liners (health workers, security personnel , cleaners and so on )during the pandemic within a week.  The new Finance Minister took decision relating to the guarantee of resources for  liability management under COVID-19 control and prevention. Under this, Rs. 564.157 million will be transferred for the federal hospital and Rs. 373.49 million will be transferred for the hospitals run by the province governments and local levels through the Province Ministry of Social Development. A decision has been taken to allocate Rs. 961.21 million to federal and private hospitals and Rs. 524.44 million to state and local level hospitals through the Ministry of Social Development for the procurement of health equipment  including HDU, ventilator, ICU to enhance the COVID-19 response capacity of  government and private hospitals, according to  Ministry spokesperson Mahesh Acharya. After assuming the office, Minister Sharma said that control and prevention of the pandemic and  free-COVID-19 vaccines to all were the priorities of the government and urged the employees to work for the same with dedication.  As he said, to revive the nation’s economy hit hard by the pandemic is the need of the hour and the government is ready to cooperate with the private sector towards that end. He said that economic policy capable of addressing the issues of poor, backward and marginalized people was the need of the time. Before assuming office, Finance Minister Sharma had laid a wreath at the Martyrs' Pillar at the CPN (Maoist Center)’s party headquarters, Parisdanda.

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'Overcharging hospitals to be punished'

The Parsa District Administration has decided to inspect private hospitals following several complaints that the COVID-19 patients alongside people suffering from different health problems were being overcharged.

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Some private hospitals to face music for collecting exorbitant fees

KATHMANDU, May 6: Ministry of Health and Population has announced to take action against the private hospitals if they charge high fees on COVID-19 patients for their treatment.  The Ministry’s statement comes at a time when some private hospitals were found charging exorbitant fees from the patients.   Assistant Spokesperson of the Ministry Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari on Wednesday said that such hospitals would be punished on the basis of complaints received at the Ministry and local administration.     The Ministry’s serious attention was drawn to the act of giving unwanted stress and aggravating problems instead of extending services to one another in this time of pandemic, according to the statement released by Adhikari.   The Ministry has also warned to the wrongdoers not to carry out such activities.

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Some private hospitals to face music for collecting exorbitant fees

Ministry of Health and Population has announced to take action against the private hospitals if they charge high fees on COVID-19 patients for their treatment.

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Private hospitals in Kathmandu charging up to Rs 50,000 per bed a day for COVID-19 treatment

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Private hospitals in Kathmandu charging up to Rs 50,000 per bed a day for COVID-19 treatment

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Govt asks private hospitals to allocate 20% bed for COVID-19 patients

KATHMANDU, Aug 14: The government has asked private hospitals to allocate 20 percent of their beds for COVID-19 patients as the increasing number of cases has left only a few beds available for new COVID-19 patients in the coronavirus-designated hospitals.

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SC orders private hospital to treat COVID-19 patients

KATHMANDU, March 31: At a time when the media have reported the denial of private hospitals to serve the patients suffering from COVID-19 like symptoms across the country, the Supreme Court has issued an interim order that private hospitals need to arrange a facility to treat the COVID-19 patients.

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