18-bed ICU set up at Barishal SBMCH

From now on, coronavirus patients will get ICU support at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) 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; a panel of four doctors and 30 nurses will work at the unit," 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 have been quarantined since Tuesday, as all hostels of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (SBMC) were locked down, as is Medicine unit-3 of the hospital.

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