Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Thursday said it is “shameful” for the premier state-run healthcare institute, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), not to have one CT scan machine of its own.
Hearing a suo moto public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad used the term to describe the lackadaisical approach of Rims in procuring the machine. The bench ordered the director of the autonomous healthcare institute to submit an application on Thursday itself to the government for the purchase of a CT scan machine.
The HC has listed the matter for hearing again on Friday.
Ranchi: With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting the state, patients in Ranchi district are finding it difficult to get institutional care as most private hospitals are running short of beds and government healthcare facilities are yet to be ramped up . Of the 6,844 active cases in Jharkhand on Tuesday night, Ranchi accounted for more than 53% (3,665).
The state capital is witnessing a massive surge in Covid, reporting a positivity rate as high as that in Mumbai, which is getting close to 9,000 new cases a day. In the first six days of this month, a total of 15,952 samples were tested in Ranchi, of which 2,763 returned a positive result.
Ranchi: Even as state capital Ranchi grapples with a surge in infections, accounting for more than 50% of the total active cases in Jharkhand, the district hospital here has got only one doctor to handle 60 ventilators. Notably, ventilators are operated under the supervision of doctor who have specialisation in anaesthesia.
As per the data provided by the district health authorities, the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) has 18 ventilators and the central hospital of Central Coalfields Limited has a lone ventilator. The sadar hospital in Ranchi has a total of 60 ventilators, but none of them has been used since the second wave of infections began in the state. Till Monday morning, Ranchi had 3,015 of 5,244 active cases in the state.
Ranchi: Amid the surge in new Covid-19 cases in the state capital and across Jharkhand, the health department on Sunday asked the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) management to prepare 250 Covid-designated beds by Wednesday while the city airport has appealed to the passengers to reach the airport three hours before their flight departures to avoid rushes and follow safety protocols.
On Sunday, health secretary Kamal Kishore Soan chaired a meeting attended by Rims director Kameshwar Prasad, the institute’s critical care head Dr Pradeep Bhattacharya and other senior officials of the state health mission. During the meeting, Soan asked the Rims authorities to get the beds ready.
Youngsters without masks at the interstate bus terminus in Kantatoli Ranchi on Saturday
RANCHI: With the second wave of coronavirus gripping the state despite the inoculation drive going on in full swing, healthcare experts are of the view that vaccinating just the vulnerable age group won’t help unless those within the 18-40 age range are also included. The experts feel that age group is more likely to contribute to the disease spread as many of them step out for work.
Dr Vijay Mishra, the critical care expert and director of the Ranchi-based Shree Bhagwan Mahavir Medica Hospital, said, “Around 15% of the patients admitted here are below 35 years and although the percentage is not very high, we need to keep this in mind that there are many Covid patients within that age range who do not require hospitalisation and are in home isolation.