Jammu and Kashmir
2 medical professionals amongst 19 healthcare facility staff test favorable for COVID-19 in J-K’s Udhampur
Nineteen staffers, including 2 doctors, at Udhampur district medical facility in Jammu and Kashmir checked positive for coronavirus on Wednesday.
The staff had actually come in contact with a pregnant woman who recently underwent a cesarean area at the healthcare facility and were placed under quarantine after her report for COVID-19 came positive.
Udhampur District Development Commissioner Piyush Singla, in a tweet, stated, “With more than 1000 negative reports in the last 4 days we get up with a report of 19 positives today, mainly the personnel of district medical facility (sic).”
” These were high threat contacts who took care of the delivery of a pregnant favorable woman and were already quarantined,” he tweeted.
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New Delhi
All CGHS hospitals informed as COVID-hospitals to offer treatment to recipients
The Union Health Ministry said that all Central Federal Government Health Scheme (CGHS) empanelled hospitals, alerted as COVID-hospitals by State federal governments, will offer treatment facilities to CGHS recipients.
The Ministry released an order on June 10 to all Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) empanelled under CGHS, after examining the representations from CGHS recipients regarding difficulties in availing treatment centers at private hospitals/diagnostic centres empanelled under CGHS.
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