However, one block of the Tomo Riba Institute ofHealth and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS) at Naharlagun near herewill continue to function as Covid-19 unit with well-demarcated entry and exit points, Health and Family WelfareSecretary P Parthiban said on Tuesday.
The remaining blocks in the state's lone medicalcollege hospital would resume treating cases other thancoronavirus infection in its OPDs and IPDs (in-patientsdepartment) from Wednesday, he said.
The government had on March 26 designated the TRIHMSas the Covid-19 hospital and transferred the admitted patientsto the Rama Krishna Mission Hospital here.
The decision to resume normal work was taken after thestate's only Covid-19 patient, a 31-year-old man, was curedand discharged from a hospital in Lohit district on April 17.
Not a single coronavirus infection case was detectedin Arunachal Pradesh sine then and the TRIHMS is yet to treatany such patient so far.
Till Monday evening, a total of 584 samples weretested for Covid-19, out of which 568 were found to benegative while results of 16 are awaited, health departmentofficials said. UPLNN NN