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Bhaktapur Hospital also begins rapid diagnostic test for coronavirus

Bhaktapur, April 12

The test for coronavirus has begun in Bhaktapur Hospital after the hospital received the kit for rapid diagnostic tests.

Those foreign returnees and suspected to have contracted the deadly virus will be tested at the hospital from today, informs the hospital’s superintendent, Dr Sumitra Gautam.

The 300 test kits were sent to the hospital by the provincial Ministry of Health.

Anyone tested positive for the virus will be treated in isolation in the hospital, but in case of further treatment and test, the infected ones will be sent to Teku-based Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital. Currently, the hospital has a 10-bed isolation ward.

The hospital so far has collected nasal and throat swabs of 154 suspected ones and sent to the National Public Health Laboratory, among which 90 were tested negative while results are awaited for the rest 64.

Around 25 to 50 people infected with flu and fever have been visiting the hospital on a daily basis, the hospital says. The hospital has been providing regular healthcare services during the lockdown on the contrary to many private health facilities that have ceased rendering OPD and other healthcare services during this period.

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