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350 patients shifted to new GMC block: Health Min

THE GOAN NETWORKPublished May 16, 2021, 12:37 AM IST

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Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Saturday announced that 350 Covid patients have been shifted to the newly completed superspecialty block at Goa Medical College and Hospital.

Initially, GMC authorities had planned to utilise only 150-200 ICU beds at this new premises. However, owing to the growing burden on the old GMC building, it was decided that the new block would be utilized to its full capacity.

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GMC Dean refuses to admit deaths due to O2 shortage

THE GOAN NETWORK

Published May 16, 2021, 12:36 AM IST

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PANAJIContrary to his own statements before the High Court of Bombay at Goa earlier this week, Dean of GMC Dr S M Bandekar steadfastly refused to admit that shortage of oxygen during the “dark hours” of 2 to 6 am caused almost 70 deaths at GMC over the last four days. “There is high oxygen consumption in double mutant Covid infection. So, we cannot directly say that drop in oxygen has caused a certain number of deaths because all of them were critical cases. How to…