COVID-19 impact | AIIMS Delhi to temporarily shut OPD services from April 22

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The All India Institute of Medical Sciences on April 19 said it is temporarily switching from physical OPD services to teleconsultations and also suspending/postponing routine hospitalisations, including elective surgeries, due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

“It has been decided to temporarily switch over from physical consultations of OPD’s patients in morning OPD’s as well as Speciality Clinics in AIIMS Hospital and all Centres to Teleconsultations with effect from 22.04.2021,” it said in a statement.

AIIMS, however, said that EHS patients will be continue to be hospitalised a s clinically warranted. It also said that emergency patients who require hospitalisation in general wards or such patients who are advised private wards hospitalisation owing to emergency or semi-emergency conditions, will continue to be admitted.

The decision has been taken “in view of increased need to minimize possibility of community spread of ongoing COVID-19 epidemic and also to optimize diversion of available manpower and materials resources for the treatment of suspected/confirmed patients of COVID-19 and also considering the situation of total curfew announced by the Delhi government,” it said.