‘Ensure strict Covid protocolcompliance to curb mortality’

Kanpur: Additional chief secretary medical education Dr Rajneesh Dube on Saturday directed district authorities to ensure the compliance of Covid protocol strictly in containment zones, ensure all people must wear masks and conduct door to door sanitization.
Dube, additional chief secretary industrial development Alok Kumar-I and Dr R K Singh convened a meeting with district officials at collectorate auditorium and asked them to arrange better facilities at Level-2 private hospitals.
The patients having corona symptoms should be admitted to Covid hospitals, he added.
He directed the authorities to ensure the rapid response teams visit the residence of each Covid patient in home isolation to inspect the facilities and arrangements, adherence to Covid protocol and supervise the health of the patients and their caregivers.
Two teams of doctors should be deputed in two shifts to collect the data of home isolation patients. If the patients or their caregivers report any difficulty in breathing then they should be sent to Covid hospital immediately.
In the meeting with divisional commissioner Dr Sudhir M Bobde, district magistrate Alok Tiwari, chief development officer Dr Mahendra Kumar, CMO Dr Anil Mishra, additional CMO R P Yadav, Dubey said all the patients admitted to flu corner at private hospitals should be tracked.
The officials also directed the district authorities to increase the number of ICU beds in Level-2 and Level-3 hospitals, including GSV Medical College, Kanshiram hospital and Rama Medical College. They were told around 100 ICU beds would be added Very soon.
The officials said all specified measures must be taken to reduce the mortality rate. The health of patients admitted in hospitals must be monitored daily by a team of doctors. The samples of senior citizens, patients having comorbidities and those in serious condition with Covid symptoms should be marked and kept separately and their testing must be given on priority so that their treatment starts at the earliest.
They also told officials to increase the number of surveillance teams and stress on contact tracing of positive cases.
Kumar said sampling capacity should be increased further and the work of rapid response teams must be cross-checked.
The officials emphasized on providing ambulance services timely and ensuring better medical facilities to Covid patients. The doctors should take multiple rounds of the Covid wards and monitor the condition of the patients earnestly.