In the wake of rising Covid cases, the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) here has established a 100-bed Covid care facility with oxygen capacity at Haj House Bemina.The facility has come up at Haj House in just a week s time. While .
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Sudama Prasad of Nainpur village in rural areas of Kanpur in UP has moved his family to sleep in the field in open to prevent infection. One or two members of all households in his village are sick for the past 2-3 weeks; common symptoms are fever, cough, body-ache, weakness. At least three persons have died in the village during this period, one of them rather young. There is no health facility as Health Centre has no staff and no medicines; serious cases are taken to block headquarter at Ghatampur. All government health facilities are over-flowing with patients, and private clinics/hospitals have closed doors.
Govt sets up 100 bedded oxygenated facility at Hajj House; established in one week
The facility has come up at Hajj House in just a week’s time.
While giving details, the CMO Srinagar apprised the Deputy Commissioner, Mohammad Aijaz Asad, who is also the Chairman DDMA that, the patients referred by a physician having mild symptoms of Covid-19 infection and require oxygen support of less than 10 litres per minute can be admitted for Isolation as well as treatment.
He further added that the Health Department is in the process of procuring more Bulk Oxygen Cylinders and Oxygen Concentrators to augment the bed capacity at Hajj House.
Medics barred from media interactions in Kashmir
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Administration takes charge of private oxygen facilities
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Workers carry medical oxygen cylinders for COVID-19 patients, in Jammu, on Friday, May 7, 2021. | Photo Credit:
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Administration takes charge of private oxygen facilities The Jammu and Kashmir administration has barred doctors dealing with COVID-19 patients in the valley’s hospitals from media interactions. It has also taken charge of all private oxygen-generating facilities in Srinagar and is regulating supply to NGOs.
“All chief medical officers, medical superintendents, block medical officers of the Kashmir division are enjoined upon to issue instructions to the staff to desist from media interactions, as it has been seen that contradictory and confusing messages are being circulated, which misinforms the public and creates unnecessary and avoidable panic,” Dr. Mushtaq Rather, Director, Health Services, said in an orde
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AAA In view of the surge in COVID-19 cases in Kozhikode, District Collector Seeram Sambasiva Rao, in his capacity as Chairman of the District Disaster Management Authority, set up teams to discharge duties under Section 30 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
The first team in charge of contact tracing and testing is to ensure that local bodies have sufficient number of staff members to discharge their duties related to COVID-19 management. They need to ensure that the control rooms in local bodies are effectively tracing all contacts and that the same is marked on the Jagratha portal. All traced contacts need to be tested while priority-based testing in areas with high test positivity rate (TPR) and testing of vulnerable sections should be ensured.