The government has started a special arrangement where the eye hospitals in the country will be transformed to give special care to the coronavirus infected patients. With the rising number of infected, at first glance, it might seem rational to take this step in bringing effective change.
However, this is still too soon for eye care hospitals to be transformed in such a way. This would result in the inability of those seeking eye treatments to pursue it since the hospitals would be hot zones where virus can be transmitted if treaded thoughtlessly.
Among children there are special cases of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) which is quite severe and needs urgent medical treatment. If the eye hospitals start giving out treatment to coronavirus patients so early in the battle then patients who seek eye treatment on an emergency basis might become unable to get any help.
Eye hospitals would have to discontinue their emergency
treatment of patients suffering from eye diseases if
coronavirus isolation units were to set up there
A report published in this daily pointed to the fact that eye hospitals would have to discontinue their emergency treatment of patients suffering from eye disease if coronavirus isolation units were to set up there.
Already in various district level eye hospitals have stopped functioning in the order they were supposed to because of taking in and creating isolation units for coronavirus patients. This has also entailed the hospital to taking care of only the emergency cases.
Experts opine that although coronavirus treatment is the topmost priority now to combat the deadly disease, sill at the same time it needs to be remembered that emergency eye care services cannot be stopped in any situation.
Also, the technicality and training of staff and doctors of an eye hospital are different than that of a general hospital which is required to fight this outbreak of coronavirus. As a result, this action taken by the government may prove to be more detrimental than beneficial to counter the contraction rate of the virus.
