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Kathmandu, March 23

Doctors involved in critical care say the government would best serve the public if it considered providing treatment to COVID-19 patients from designated hospitals in the event of an outbreak.

General Secretary of Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine Hem Raj Paneru said although the government had asked hospitals to have in place isolation wards to separate COVID-19 patients immediately without referring them to other hospitals, all hospitals did not have the required facilities and trained human resources to deal with the situation. “Until now, family members of a patient bring medicines from pharmacies and other medical stuff for patients, but if an outbreak hits Nepal, trained health professionals should run errands for patients to prevent infection from the patients to other people, including their family members,” he said.

Paneru said there should be designated hospitals in cities and other areas to treat COVID-19 patients as doing so in other hospitals could increase the risk of infection. “There should be separate ambulances to transport suspected COVID-19 patients or else the risk of infection among health professionals accompanying the patient in the ambulance will be high,” he argued.

He said if the government wanted to convert any non-designated hospital into a designated hospital for treating COVID-19 pati

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