COVID-19 test must for patients admitted to Goa Medical College & Hospital

PANAJI, (PTI): The Goa government on Tuesday said that all patients getting admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) will have to undergo antigen test for coronavirus. State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane inspected the apex hospital (GMCH) located at Bambolim.

“It has been decided that all the patients getting admitted in the Goa Medical College and Hospital will have to undergo antigen testing,” the minister said.

While antigen testing was made mandatory for both patients and relatives attending them in the hospital when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, Rane said only patients will have to undergo the test this time around.

Following his visit, the minister admitted that a few wards in the hospital were congested, with some patients sleeping on the floor.

Rane instructed GMCH officials to dedicate three wards in the newly constructed super specialty hospital block to the medicine ward and shift some of the patients there, it was stated.

The GMCH is burdened, as the district hospitals were referring their cases to the facility, he said, adding that doctors will be instructed to manage patients at the peripheral hospitals, without referring them to the GMCH, except in emergency cases. (PTI)