<span style="color: #222222;">Gujarat government has called the media reports of alleged segregation of wards of COVID-19 patients on the basis on religion in Civil Hospital Ahmedabad baseless and misleading.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The official statement issued today by Principal Secretary Department of Health, Dr Jayanti Ravi said the Government of Gujarat is fully prepared to fight against COVID19 with the support of all sections of the society. It clarified that the state takes pride in being a diverse and pluralistic state and does not discriminate patients on the basis of caste, creed or religion.<br />''<br />''However, looking to age of the patients, severity of the infection, and their medical conditions like Diabetes, Hypertension, or any other underlying medical condition, treating doctors take appropriate decisions to save the lives of patients and they are kept in different wards based on their medical condition, severity of the symptoms, gender and age, which is based entirely on the advice of treating Doctors.</span><br />