Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to review PMCH facilities

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar will review the functioning of the newly created 100-bed Covid ward in PMCH on August 7, hospital superintendent Dr Bimal Karak said on Wednesday. “There are 40 patients in this ward,” he said.
The ward has 25 ICUs for critical patients. “Final work on the supply of oxygen by pipes to all beds is in progress. Three doctors and paramedical staff would be on duty in each shift,” he said.
“Call bells are attached to 36 beds, but this facility would be provided to every bed of this ward so that in case of sudden complication, patients may call the nurse or doctor on duty any time,” he said.
PMCH principal Dr V P Choudhary said following a direction by divisional commissioner Sanjay Kumar Agrawal on August 3, CCTV cameras have been installed in the Covid ward, so that the control room may view the activities of the admitted patients.
“Also, all the admitted patients are being provided wrist bands for identification as Covid positive. The PMCH administration is releasing daily bulletin of health status of the patients in Covid ward from Tuesday from its ‘May I help you’ desk and it came as a big relief to families of those under treatment,” Dr Choudhary said.
“There were 190 patients admitted in the isolation ward as suspected cases of coronavirus while about 200 antigen tests and 200 RT-PCR tests were being done by the microbiology department every day,” he added.
“The hospital also constituted Covid 19 task force comprising one doctor from every department to coordinate between a patient’s kin and the Covid ward,” Dr Karak said.
“The CM may also interact with some patients in the Covid ward,” he said, adding that other clinical departments like medicine, orthopaedics, gynaecology and others were asked to remain attentive so that non-Covid patients did not have to suffer in treatment for their diseases.