The World Health Organisation on Wednesday asked India to address “critical gaps” in medical supplies and hospital capacities amid the country’s still rising second Covid-19 wave and what some health experts say is evidence of poor preparedness.
The WHO also said it is important to assign levels of urgency to patients to optimise the available resources such as intensive care unit beds.
“We need to act with speed, expand hospital capacities and equip them with medical supplies, most needed to save lives,” Poonam Khetrapal Singh, the regional director of WHO South-East Asia, said.
India on Wednesday recorded over 360,000 new Covid cases and 3,293 deaths. The fresh cases have raised the count of active patients to more than 2.97 million, nearly three times larger than the peak counts during mid-September last year.
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Tamil Nadu and Kerala have fought the Covid tsunami well so far
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Both these states seem to have learnt important lessons from the last surge and stand out for their public health approach to tackling the pandemic and preparedness in terms of putting a system in place that takes responsibility of guiding treatment once a person tests positive for Covid.
The tsunami of Covid cases has led to a collapse of the health system in state after state exposing the lack of preparedness. People are begging for help as they run from one hospital to another looking for a bed, oxygen, drugs, ambulances or even hearse vans. With helplines clogged, nodal officers unreachable and dashboards and apps without real time data, some are turning to social media Samaritans in desperation. But there are two states Tamil Nadu and Kerala that have not witnessed such scenes yet. Both these states seem to have learnt important lessons from the last surge and stand out for their pub
The tsunami of Covid cases has led to a collapse of the health system in state after state exposing the lack of preparedness. People are begging for help as they run from one hospital to another looking for a bed, oxygen, drugs, ambulances or even hearse vans. With helplines clogged, nodal officers unreachable and dashboards and apps without real time data, some are turning to social media Samaritans in desperation. But there are two states Tamil Nadu and Kerala that have not witnessed such scenes yet. Both these states seem to have learnt important lessons from the last surge and stand out for their public health approach to tackling the pandemic and preparedness in terms of putting a system in place that takes responsibility of guiding treatment once a person tests positive for Covid.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chaired two meetings on medical oxygen over the past two days amid SOS alarms from hospitals and concerns among experts that the key challenge is not production but transport logistics.
Modi, in a video conference on Friday with domestic oxygen manufacturers, acknowledged the steps taken to increase oxygen production in recent days.
But he underlined the need to increase the availability of oxygen cylinders and upgrade the facilities for oxygen transport.
India’s medical oxygen production has increased by 3,300 tonnes per day over the past few days, with contributions from steel plants and oxygen producers and the diversion of industry oxygen, government officials had noted during another oxygen meeting chaired by Modi on Thursday.
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