While the elderly remain a priority for Covid care and vaccination, the risk of infections in young children may have been overlooked - Issue Date: Jun 21, 2021
State makes arrangements to handle COVID spike among children
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Apprehending a spike in COVID-19 cases among the children, the Health Department has made elaborate arrangements to handle any possible situation in the district.
Additional paediatric ICUs, beds and ventilators will be made available while assistant surgeons and staff nurses will be given training in ventilator and ICU management.
“At present, we have more paediatric cases compared to previous months. After a discussion with Indian Academy of Paediatrics, all main government hospitals in Kollam have been instructed to add extra beds. Since we expect a surge, neonatal ICUs, ICU beds, and step-down ICUs will be made available, and the numbers will be increased depending on the requirement. Extra facilities will be arranged in Government Medical College Hospital, District Hospital, and various taluk hospitals,” said Dr R. Sandhya, Deputy DMO.
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New Delhi: CSIR’s new entity, the CSIR-National Institute of Science communication and Policy Research (NIScPR)), New Delhi, organized a half-day online session on COVID-19 in children yesterday (04 June 2021). The session was focused on the recent second wave outbreak and the impact of COVID-19 on children, threats and necessary protocols required for the safety of children. The Chief Guest of the webinar was Dr. V. Vijayalakshmi; Additional Commissioner (Academics), KVS (HQ), New Delhi and the Guest speaker was Prof. Dr. R. Somasekar, Professor of Pediatrics, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hosptial (SBMCH), Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Executive Board Member 2021, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP). The program was attended by about 150 delegates including several dignitaries, faculty members, researchers and scientists, and students from various schools through the link made available on Face Book by CSIR-NIScPR.
The sero-survey of December 2020-January 2021 showed that the percentage of infected children in the age group of 10-17 was around 25%, which is the same as adults.