PANAJI: Except for two major healthcare facilities, the Goa government has denotified all other government hospitals in the state as designated Covid facilities in wake of a sharp drop in the number of new infections, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday.

The denotified government hospitals have been directed to shift all their remaining Covid patients either to the super-specialty block or the SGDH at the earliest and resume full-scale normal activities as soon as possible, said the order issued by the additional secretary, health department.

"There were many vacant beds in these hospitals. Even if the facilities have been denotified, we are in a position to restart them again at any time," Sawant said. The Chief Minister also said that only two government hospitals, the South Goa district hospital and a super speciality unit attached to the Goa Medical College, near Panaji, would now function as the government Covid facilities.Over the last few days, the daily new infection count appears to have plateaued to around 250 cases, even as the daily mortality rate has dropped to single digits.

Sawant said that OPD facilities in the rest of the government hospitals, previously notified as Covid treatment facilities, have already been started. "OPDs have started. They need to be started now because monsoons have arrived," the Chief Minister said.

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