Hospitals To Hold Treating Out Patients For 15 Days

All Hospitals in the state are instructed to not provide ‘out-patient care/elective case, including patients with mild symptoms to dental patients for the next two weeks or till further orders to prevent crowding and the spread of Covid-19.

The Principal Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department T K Anil Kumar has issued an official public notification to the hospitals/super-speciality hospitals or autonomous institutions that only sick and patients requiring emergency care’’ may be permitted to visit in view of the prevailing Covid-19 situation.

Both Government and private hospitals have been instructed to take similar steps ‘to prevent crowding and halt the spread of Covid-19’.