Wearing the masks will be necessary for government hospitals from April 1 onwards, in the state of Tamil Nadu, because Covid-19 cases are growing day by day in a particular state.
Health minister Ma. Subramanian was passed the instructions on Friday and said that All the inpatients, doctors, outpatients, visitors, nurses, and other health-related employers and medical staff of hospitals need to wear covid-19 masks at hospitals.
Besides district headquarters hospitals and government medical college hospitals, There are overall 11,300 centers here that cover urban PHCs, taluk, and non-taluk hospitals, health sub-centers, and primary health centers (PHCs).
“From Saturday onwards, all government hospitals will have to follow the rules which have been settled by state and district-level health officers,’ The Health minister said to media reporters on Friday.
Even though Covid norms are in place in the state, the decision to implement the mask rule in hospitals has been taken because infections usually begin multiplying at hospitals first, the minister said, explaining the rationale behind the move.
Tamil Nadu reported 123 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, while 3,095 cases have been reported from across India in the past 24 hours, the minister told reporters.
