Incident commanders posted at private hospitals in Ernakulam
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They will ensure that COVID patients are getting proper treatment
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They will ensure that COVID patients are getting proper treatment
Incident commanders have been appointed in the district to ensure that private hospitals have set aside 50% of their beds for COVID patients, besides ensuring that ICU and ventilator facilities and oxygen supply are augmented at these hospitals.
Incident commanders have been appointed for around 15 major private hospitals in the district.
At an online meeting with the incident commanders, District Collector S. Suhas said they were required to efficiently supervise the situation at private hospitals. Incident commanders are to ensure that COVID patients are indeed receiving treatment at private hospitals, including under the Karunya Arogya Suraksha Padhathi.
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KOCHI: Phones are always buzzing at the newly-set up Covid war room in the Kochi Metro building near Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium at Kaloor. More than 50 people, including officials from district administration, doctors, and young volunteers, are monitoring and updating data on the availability of beds and oxygen supply in both government and private hospitals. The war room works round the clock and its members work in two shifts.
Eldhose, a post-graduate in social work, has been monitoring and handling patient data from hospitals in the district for the past six months. As we speak, his phone rings. A health official from a private hospital is calling up to update the admission of a new Covid patient.
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Set aside 25% beds for COVID care, CM tells private sector
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The People wait to undergo COVID-19 testing at a railway station during COVID-19-induced lockdown in Kozhikode on Saturday.
The State government has asked the private health sector in the State to go in for large-scale capacity building so as to help the State increase its health system capacity for COVID care. The government has also asked private hospitals to set aside a minimum of 25% beds exclusively for COVID care.
Giving the details of the discussions he had with representatives of the private health sector on Saturday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the private sector had assured the government of full cooperation in tackling the crisis. Private hospitals would give a report on the occupancy situation in hospital beds, ICUs, and ventilators on a daily basis to District Medical Officers (DMOs). The data would be put in the public domain and updated daily on the e-jag
Pandemic leads to improvement in health infrastructure
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Facilities, infection control practices in govt hospitals will help tackle future outbreaks
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Facilities, infection control practices in govt hospitals will help tackle future outbreaks
A year after the district began to first report cases of the COVID-19 infection among people who returned from other countries in March last year, infrastructural improvements and infection control measures are here to stay.
The Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) had, till recently, borne the brunt of the COVID patient load in the district, particularly in critical cases. But when the 300-bed hospital was stretched to capacity, facilities at other government health centres were gradually improved, till PVS Hospital, the Fort Kochi Taluk Hospital and now the Aluva District Hospital were turned into exclusive COVID-19 care centres.