Tag: AIIMS Patna

  • Bihar BJP chief diagnosed with very rare skin disorder, admitted to AIIMS Patna

    By Express News Service

    PATNA:  Bihar BJP president Dr Sanjay Jaiswal has been admitted to AIIMS Patna, after being diagnosed with a rare disorder identified as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS).

    Announcing his diagnosis through Facebook, on Thursday, Jaiswal said he has been placed under a medical observation-cum –treatment.

    The SJS is a serious, but very rare disorder of the skin and mucous membranes, which causes painful rashes blisters along with flu-like symptoms and high fever.

    Jaiswal said he had fever on August 25.

    But, as he was the chairman of the Water Resources Committee, he had gone to Kolkata and Guwahati to attend meetings. He returned to Patna after the meeting and noticed rashes on his skin.

    “My skin has been baldy exposed to rashes due to this disease, so I shall not be able to meet anyone for the next one week. I request everybody not to come to AIIMS to meet me,” he said. 

    According to medical experts, those suffering from this disease, which could turn fatal in the absence of proper treatment, will experience a strong burning sensation.  

    As per medical experts, the SJS disease starts working against the body causing burning sensations all over.  

    BJP state president said, “It was very difficult to catch this disease because it happens to very few people due to drug reaction. The doctors of AIIMS Patna detected my disease the very next day.”

  • 500 doctors, health workers of Bihar’s two leading hospitals infected in second COVID wave

    By PTI
    PATNA: More than 500 doctors and health workers of the two leading hospitals in Patna — AIIMS and Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) — have been infected with coronavirus during the ongoing second wave, sources said.

    Altogether, 384 employees of AIIMS Patna, including doctors, nurses, sanitation workers, have been infected during the second wave so far, its Medical Superintendent C M Singh told PTI.

    PMCH Superintendent Dr Indu Sekhar Thakur said more than 125 of its employees have tested positive so far.

    He said the list includes 70 doctors and over 55 nurses and other health workers.

    AIIMS and PMCH along with another state-run medical establishment, Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, are catering to a large number of COVID patients in the state capital.

    The PMCH superintendent said that the hospital authorities have arranged separate isolation spaces for its infected employees.

    PMCH, the century-old premier hospital of Bihar, has a facility of around 105 beds for COVID patients barring its staff and all are occupied at present, Thakur said.

    AIIMS Patna has expanded its bed capacity to 250 and all the beds are occupied.

    The PMCH superintendent said that due to the infection of many staffers, the hospital is facing a manpower shortage.

    “But since leave of all the staff has been cancelled, we are managing the functioning of the COVID wards,” he said.

    Meanwhile, the Bihar chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has published a list of 40 doctors across the state with their phone numbers for assistance to the needy.

    “Our doctors are providing treatment over the phone to patients who are primarily in home isolation,” its state president Dr Shahjanand Singh said.

    Singh, a surgeon, is himself on the list of doctors helping the needy during the crisis.

    The IMA Bihar chief said these doctors are available over the phone from 10 am-12 noon and 4-6 pm.

    The state’s coronavirus death toll rose to 1,897 on Wednesday after 56 more people succumbed to the disease, while 12,222 new cases took the tally to 3,54,281, the health department said in a bulletin.

    It said that 4,774 patients have recovered from COVID-91 in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cured people to 2,88,637.

    The state now has 63,746 active cases.

    Of the fresh fatalities, 13 each were reported from Patna and Bhagalpur districts.

    The remaining deaths were registered in several other districts.

    The new positive cases included 2,919 from state capital Patna and 861 from Gaya district, the bulletin said.

    Altogether 105980 samples were tested for COVID-19 in Bihar during the last 24 hours taking the total number of such tests to 2,55,41,936 so far.

    In Bihar, 93,164 people took the vaccine against COVID-19 on Wednesday and a total of 61,68,593 people have got the jab till date.

    Meanwhile, Secretary of Bihar Judicial Services Association and Additional District and Sessions Judge of Kishanganj District, Ajit Kumar Singh, has written to the state government demanding that judicial officers and employees of all civil courts be inoculated.

    Patna High Court Deputy Registrar Nasimul Hoda, who was infected with Corona, died at his residence on Tuesday night.

    Three days ago, Assistant Registrar of the same court, Jagan Mishra, also died.

    Judicial magistrate Manish Kumar, who was a COVID-19 patient, died at a private hospital in Patna On Tuesday night.

  • Ravi Shankar Prasad gets anti-coronavirus vaccine shot; pays Rs 250

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Union minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad was administered the first dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine in Patna on Tuesday for which he paid Rs 250.

    He said all the Union ministers have decided to voluntarily pay the price fixed for the vaccine.

    “I also got myself administered the made in India vaccine — Covaxin — at AIIMS Patna,” Prasad tweeted.

    “Though the coronavirus vaccine is free in Bihar, I paid Rs 250 to the hospital as price for the shot,” he said.

    The minister also shared a picture of himself getting inoculated.