RMCH shuts Covid unit for lack of patients

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) has shut down its Covid Unit as it lacked patients.

"We have no reason to run the unit any more as patients barely come," hospital director Brig Gen Shamim Yazdani told The Daily Star yesterday.

From now on, Covid-19 patients would be sent to the Infectious Disease Hospital instead of the unit, he said.

The unit was opened in May 2020.

RMCH hired two more private hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients as their numbers rose up.

To manage patients, the government last year decided to revive Rajshahi Sadar Hospital which had been shut for three decades. The number of Covid-19 patients started reducing from the beginning of this year.

Last month, only a few patients went to the hospital for treatment. This month, no patients turned out so far.

"We still have all the facilities developed in the hospital for treating Covid-19 patients. If situation demands, we can reopen everything," the hospital director said.