Bhagalpur hospital resumes OPD facility

BHAGALPUR: After more than two months of temporary suspension of the outpatient department (OPD) services, general medicare and emergency services, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JLNMCH) resumed its healthcare facilities for non-Covid patients from Monday.
Before resumption of the OPDs, intensive sanitization was undertaken to remove any remnants of the deadly virus anywhere in the departments.
Roster of doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff for the different departments has been prepared for treating the non-Covid patients in the OPDs.
JLNMCH medical superintendent (in-charge) Dr Asim Kumar said the OPD, general medicare as well as emergency services resumed in view of very few numbers of Covid positive cases and more specially in order to serve the non-Covid patients.
“Everyone has been asked to attend duties diligently and provide healthcare services to patients. The departments have been thoroughly sanitized and made safe for non-Covid patients,” Dr Das said.
JLNMCH, a Covid-19 dedicated hospital in the region since March 2020, was turned into a Covid care hospital in May 2021. It temporarily closed down OPD and general medicare services in order to focus on the Covid patients in the backdrop of sharp rise in the number of positive cases during the second wave.
The JLNMCH, run by the state government, is a multispecialty hospital with 800 beds. Around 30,000 patients availed the OPD services at JLNMCH every month before the pandemic, a hospital source said.
Bhagalpur civil surgeon Dr Umesh Sharma said the separate OPDs for different healthcare services, including emergency, for non coronavirus patients, has also been started at the Sadar hospital from Monday.