The condition of Covid patients at some government hospitals was not being monitored closely and some doctors, including seniors, were not focussing on their treatment, a panel of doctors set up by the government has said in a report.
The team visited hospitals to monitor whether the protocols for the treatment of Covid-19 were being adhered to.
The team came to know that at some hospitals there was no proper system of bedside monitoring of Covid patients, including their oxygen saturation levels.
At a few others, doctors were not attentive enough to find out whether some critical patients required to be “stepped up” for further intensive care or “stepped down” from the existing care system.
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Updated Jan 13, 2021 | 14:20 IST
Everything is being managed well, there is a team of people working on it. Neighbouring districts have started collecting the vaccine. Covid vaccine arrives in West Bengal, first dose to be provided at SSKM Hospital | Photo Credit: AP
Kolkata: The first consignment of 10 lakh doses of Covid vaccine ‘Covishield’ arrived in the city yesterday afternoon. It is the indigenous version of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
The first dose in West Bengal will be provided at the SSKM Hospital here on January 16, followed by the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, according to sources of the Indian Express. The city airport authorities tweeted after the vaccine arrived at 2:30 pm in a special cargo flight of budget carrier SpiceJet, “May all be free from disease. One step closer! The consignment from Pune carrying #COVID19 vaccines has arrived at #KolkataAirport. Consignment handed over to state health department
Updated Jan 03, 2021 | 15:15 IST
Till date, the strain of Covid has been found in one passenger. But there is alarm over KMC s inability to track 20 passengers. Kolkata municipality unable to track more than 20 UK passengers | Image for representation | Photo Credit: ANI
Kolkata: One more passenger who returned to the state from foreign lands has tested positive for Covid. This takes the number of Covid patients under the radar for carrying the UK strain to three. As of Sunday, the strain of Covid has been found in one passenger. But there is an alarm over the civic body’s inability to track 20 passengers who arrived by the same flight as the one with the fresh, more infectious strain. 7 others have left their addresses in the city and gone somewhere else.