Sabarmati: A 900-bed Dhanvantari hospital in Ahmedabad has started taking critical patients directly along side the token system of admission, informs the State government in a note today adding that the First Response Teams have been deployed to avoid delay in treatment of patients.

Meanwhile, a medical team from Ezhimala Naval Academy of Kerala has reached Ahmedabad to offer services to Covid patients.

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71 medical officers – para-medical staff from Indian Navy have started offering services at Dhanvantari Covid hospital in Ahmedabad which is run by the Gujarat Government and the Central government arm DRDO. The hospital which has been set up at Gujarat University convention centre is presently treating over 500 patients in ICU and oxygen wards.

The team comprising four doctors, seven nurses, 26 paramedics and 20 supporting staff, including battlefield nursing attendants, has been drawn from five Naval hospitals around the country. The team is being deployed for a period of two months and if required, the release added. The battlefield nursing attendants are non-medical naval personnel trained by Indian Navy to assist the doctors and paramedics in treating the Covid patients.

A meeting between DRDO and Gujarat government was held today on various matters including management, operation, protocol etc.

A decision to start e-meet between the patients and their relatives was taken in this meeting. The patients will be able to speak to their relatives through video call with the help of ‘Covid Saathi’.