BHUBANESWAR: The state government has constituted expert teams both at
medical college level and state level, who will visit the established Covid facilities and monitor them for provision of optimal Covid case management.
During the first phase of the covid-19 pandemic in the state, several covid care centres (
CCC), dedicated covid health centres (DCHC) and dedicated covid hospitals (DCH) have been set up across the state. Many of them had suspended their operation or reduced the capacity during decline of the first phase of the covid-19.
As the incidence of Covid-19 cases are on the rise currently, the government of
Odisha have taken expeditious steps to expand the capacity of treatment facilities for the people of the state. These include expansion of bed, HDU and ICU capacity in government and private hospitals to mitigate the pandemic.
The state level team comprised four members. Special secretary (public health) will act as chairman of the team. Others are head of the departments of pulmonary medicine, microbiology and anaesthesiology of the respective medical college hospital of the district tagged. The medical college level team has three members with heads of the three departments of the medical college.
The team will inspect and supervise the Covid hospitals on site in the districts tagged to them with prior information to the chief district medical and public health officers of the district that will facilitate the inspection. He will ensure the presence of authorised medical officer attached to the hospital during the inspection of the team.
The teams will observe and assess the protocols followed for screening the cases, isolation and quarantine mechanisms followed, method of sample collection, management of Covid positive cases, management of patients in ICUs, biomedical waste disposal, infection control and prevention methods, rational use of PPEs, deceased body disposal methods followed and appropriate use of facilities like HDUs and ICU beds.
This team will assess the quality of diets, equipment, provision and stock of logistics including oxygen, drugs and PPEs. It will also assess the level of patient satisfaction. The state level team will inspect and supervise the Covid hospitals based on the feedback received from
MCH level teams.
SCB medical college hospital (MCH) Cuttack will look after Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Khurda, Nayagarh and Puri. The districts of Boudh, Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal will be tagged to the MKCG MCH Berhampur. VIMSAR Burla will take care of Angul,
Bargarh, Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh. SLN MCH will look after Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur and Rayagada. Districts of Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj will be tagged to the PRM MCH Baripada. Balangir's BB MCH will look after Balangir, Kalahandi, Nuapada and Sonepur, while FM MCH Balasore will oversee Balasore and Bhadrak districts.