Pvt hosps refusing to treat Covid patients to face heat: Bokaro DC

Bokaro: With Covid cases rising, the district administration here on Saturday asked all private hospitals to not be reluctant in providing treatment to infected persons. This comes at a time when till Friday, the district recorded a total of 2,849 cases of which, 559 are still active, 2,273 have recovered and 17 have died of the viral infection.
Action will be taken in cases of non-compliance, the district administration informed the hospitals.
“No private hospitals should be reluctant to treat persons infected with Covid-19,” deputy commissioner Rajesh Kumar Singh told the hospitals in a meeting held on Saturday. Apart from representatives of a dozen private hospitals, owners of K M Memorial, Muskan Hospital, Neelam Nursing Home and Jain Hospital were also present during the meeting.
Chas sub-divisional officer (SDO) Shashi Prakash Singh said, “No private hospitals should refuse admitting positive patients. If they do so, the administration will be bound to take legal action against them. Many private hospitals have agreed to provide Covid treatment.”
Requirement of beds in hospitals has also gone up after the number of symptomatic and critical patients increased in the last few days. The only dedicated Covid hospital, Bokaro General Hospital (BGH), which is treating symptomatic and serious patients, has almost all its beds occupied. There is a crunch of facilities even in neighbouring districts of Ranchi and Dhanbad.
Apart from BGH, the two institutional Covid Care Centres and three hotels-turned-isolation centres are only authorised to accommodate asymptomatic patients.