Panaji: A team of experts from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi will be arriving in Goa on Tuesday to monitor the medical treatment given to Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik, who is currently admitted in a private hospital in the coastal state after testing positive for COVID-19 infection.
State Health department said that a team of specialists from AIIMS, Delhi is arriving in Goa on Tuesday, which consists of HoD Anaesthesiology and HoD Pulmonary Medicine.
Naik was tested positive for COVID-19 infection on August 12 after which he was admitted in a private hospital near here.
“The Minister is on High Flow Nasal Oxygen for maintaining his oxygen saturation level. The first dose of convalescent plasma has also been administered to him today, under the supervision of the Transfusion Medicine Specialist who recently joined Goa from AIIMS, New Delhi and he is responding well to the plasma therapy,” the health department official said.
The official said that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday visited the hospital and personally reviewed the case of Naik with the treating medical team of experts from Goa Medical College and the hospital.