Third Covid care centre in Nashik to treat patients from rural areas

NASHIK: The district health office (DHO), Nashik, has decided to start the third Covid care centre (CCC) with a 200-bed capacity at a students’ hostel of the tribal department near Shivaji Nagar area to provide treatment to patients coming from the rural areas and the northern part of the city.
Currently, the rural health department runs two CCCs in the city—one in Sandeep Foundation near Trimbakeshwar on the western part of the city and the other in the Deolali Cantonment area on the south.
“There is a good number of patients coming from the northern part and other areas of the city. It is difficult to transport them from across the city for treatment,” said district health officer Kapil Aher.
“The third CCC has been planned keeping in mind the rising number of patients in the taluka, which currently has 123 active patients of the 619 reported so far,” said Aher. Nashik taluka stands third in the number of Covid-19 cases across the district after Niphad and Sinnar.
Currently, around 100-120 throat swab samples are being tested in the other two CCCs. “The third facility has been proposed for the treatment of asymptomatic patients so that the Covid care centre in Deolali area and the Nashik civil hospital, which has been designated as the nodal hospital for Covid-19 treatment, can be managed effectively,” said Aher.
He added that the hostel of the tribal students at RTO corner was also under consideration for construction of CCC in the next phase if required.