{"id":116919,"date":"2021-08-09T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116919"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:33:31","slug":"every-hospital-to-be-converted-to-treat-covid-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/09\/every-hospital-to-be-converted-to-treat-covid-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Every hospital to be converted to treat COVID patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Every hospital island-wide will be converted into hospitals where COVID-19 patients are treated within this week, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it has been observed that people had shown a little reluctance to seek medical care when they feel unfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are kindly requested to go to the nearest hospital wherever symptoms similar to COVID-19 appear without endangering others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People must have been panicked to seek medical assistance at hospitals due to the recent videos and images shared on social media,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the congestion at hospitals is being addressed and people should not be scared of reaching the hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, Dr. Gunasena said in a situation where Delta variant is spreading like a wildfire in Sri Lanka, it is essential that people must avoid attending large gatherings.&nbsp;<strong>(Sheain Fernandopulle)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Every hospital island-wide will be converted into hospitals where COVID-19 patients are treated within this week, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said. He said it has been observed that people had shown a little reluctance to seek medical care when they feel unfit. People are kindly requested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}