18-bed ICU set up for coronavirus patients at SBMCH

Coronavirus patients will get ICU support at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) from now on as an 18-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with ventilators has been set up at its isolation unit.

"There will be a doctor and a nurse at the ICU in each shift and a panel of four doctors and 30 nurses will work at the unit following a roster," said the hospital's Director Dr Bakir Hosssin.

Four intern doctors, a number of nurses and hospital staff have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last four days.

Around 150 intern doctors of the hospital are living under quarantine since Tuesday, as all hostels of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (SBMC) -- Habibur Rahman Hostel, Jamilur Rahman Hostel, Dr Nur-ur-Nabi Interns' Hostel and Girls' Hostel -- were locked down after the four interns tested positive for coronavirus.

Medicine unit-3 of the hospital is also under lock down at present.

According to SBMCH authorities, 31 coronavirus patients were treated at the hospital till yesterday morning.