Karnataka planning separate hospital for COVID-19 patients


Team Udayavani, Mar 13, 2020, 4:04 PM IST

Bengaluru: The Health Department of the Karnataka government is planning to have a separate hospital where all cases of COVID-19 will be kept in quarantine.

Presently, it is in the process of setting up of separate isolation wards for COVID-19 cases at eight Bengaluru hospitals.

Dr K Sudhakar, the medical education minister said that he has already discussed the idea of a separate facility for COVID-19 cases so that all those that must be isolated can be kept at a single location to contain the spread of the virus.

This move comes after a 76-year-old from Kalaburagi became the first known case in the country who died due to the virus.

Apart from him five positive COVID-19 cases have been reported from in Bengaluru.

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