In a major relief for the patients of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, the administration of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh has decided to make all its OPDs operational.
In view of the pandemic of the Covid-19, the OPD arrangements were changed and only special OPDs like Emergency and Trauma were functional. The director of the AIIMS Rishikesh, Ravi Kant said that the society should accept that that we should learn to live with the Covid-19 now and keeping this thing in mind various OPD services have been revamped with the terms of the social distance and mandatory use of masks to prevent infection with the coronavirus. The dean hospital affairs, U B Sharma informed that the registration facility would be available at the main entrance of the hospital for the patients coming to AIIMS for treatment. “After receiving the token from this registration counter patients can come to the non Covid area for general OPD. The Doctors of departments of General Medicine, General Surgery, Paediatric, Orthopaedic, Surgical Oncology, Medical Oncology, Dermatology, ENT, Urology, Psychiatry and Pulmonary Medicine would be available from 8.30 am at AIIMS OPD,’’ he said.
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
