Dr. Manisha Rawal, director of the hospital, said that three suspected cholera patients aged 65, 55 and 28 from different parts of the Kathmandu Valley were undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the hospital.
A patient who returned from abroad with symptoms similar to that of Monkeypox has been admitted to the Sukraraj Tropical & Infectious Disease Hospital Teku on Thursday.
KATHMANDU: A Nepali youth suspected of contracting monkeypox virus is under observation at a Teku hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. The suspect is being monitored at Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Diseases Hospital (STIDH) in Teku, Kathmandu. According to STIDH, the young man who arrived from Dubai is being monitored after he exhibited similar symptoms to that […]
KATHMANDU: Shukraraj Tropical and Infectious Diseases Hospital, Teku, which stalled the vaccination campaign after doctors, health workers and staffers tested
The government had started administering J&J’s Janssen vaccine to migrant workers after major labour destinations made it mandatory for incoming migrant workers to be vaccinated.
Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, which has been treating coronavirus patients since the first case of the disease was reported in Nepal last year, has stopped conducting polymerase chain reaction tests until further notice.
“If anyone suspected the COVID-19 infection, they would come to Teku hospital and even other hospitals would refer people to this hospital for consultation,” recalls Sher Bahadur Pun, Clinical Research Unit Coordinator at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital. According to him, in the initial stage, Kathmandu was shocked after a family that travelled from the UK tested positive for COVID-19. The next day, people lined up at Teku hospital to get tested for COVID-19.
Patan Hospital has also been treating Corona patients since the pandemic hit the country, said Dr. Bishnu Prasad Sharma, former director of the Patan Academy of Health Sciences.
