<span style="color: #222222;">The Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai, which once had the highest number of Covid-19 beds in the state, has recorded zero patients. The last patient who was getting treatment for the viral disease got discharged on Monday evening, leaving the Covid-special wards without any inpatient. However, the outpatient ward in the hospital, which is one of the biggest in providing tertiary medical care, is running. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu has witnessed 22 new infections in the last 24-hours, and the active caseload is 226. There have been no deaths due to the infection for the past many days.<br />''<br />''AIR Correspondent reports that the general hospital in Chennai admitted the state's first Covid patient on 7th March, 2020. It has weathered so many stressful situations during the first and second waves of the pandemic. It has introduced several novel methods like ambulance triaging, zero delay method and in-house oxygen generation. It also handled the mucormycosis infections, which had been triggered by the pandemic.<br />''<br />''Its doctors say the hospital has at times witnessed 90-year olds with co-morbidities walking home after complete recovery and people in the prime of their youth without any life-style diseases failing to recover. Several researches on the pandemic have also been held in the public health facility. Another notable feature in the state is that it has not witnessed any death due to the viral infection since 18th March.</span><br />
News On AIR | April 13, 2022 1:24 PM
Tamil Nadu: Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai recorded zero COVID patients