Mumbai docs want key drugs made available fast as hospital wards swell up

If patients recover faster, they needn't stay in hospital for 14 days and this could free up beds; Remdesivir and Favipiravir are in the process of being made available in India

Aryan Bose (name changed) was asked to go home by a hospital in Central Mumbai earlier this week after he was not showing any symptoms of the novel coronavirus and his vitals were stable. He was admitted there for only four days and had earlier stayed in another hospital in the eastern suburbs of the city from where he hails, for another four days. So, Bose could go home within eight days and no diagnostic test was conducted on him before he was let off. The relaxed guidelines from the Centre now allow patients to go home earlier if they