After increasing cases of corona infection in the state, wearing masks has been made mandatory in Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) Shimla. Despite this, patients and relatives reached IGMC on Monday morning without masks.
The administration has entrusted the security personnel with the task of instructing people to wear masks. Still, the patients who came to the OPD without a mask were not examined. On Saturday, the hospital administration had issued instructions that it is necessary to wear masks in the hospital premises.
Corona cases have started increasing again from the city to the district. After this, the hospital administration has issued a guideline. Inside Medicine, Ortho OPD, doctors are examining the patients by wearing masks and maintaining proper physical distance. The duty of one worker in the OPD has been imposed to make arrangements for standing with proper physical distance between other patients.
After making it mandatory to wear masks in IGMC, many people who arrived on Monday were seen outside buying masks first. As soon as people came to know that doctors are not checking on going to OPD without masks, people started going to shops to buy masks.
