Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 13

The district administration has come up with a 30-bed post Covid-19 recovery ward in the premises of Civil Hospital, where patients who have recovered from Covid-19 but still require oxygen support will be shifted for speedy recovery.

Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori, while visiting the new ward, directed the health officials to ensure the availability of all requisite facilities and equipment in this ward for smooth and better treatment of patients. He also asked officials to not discharge such patients whose oxygen saturation level was still unstable and keep them in this post Covid-19 recovery ward until they are fit and fine.

The DC also mentioned that this ward with 30 beds would exclusively cater to the needs of patients who have reported negative but still having lower oxygen saturation. He also directed health officials to deploy oxygen concentrators in this ward to help patients improve their oxygen level, adding that 30 oxygen concentrators were being given to civil hospital through various NGOs. Thori said the Savi Sports was also donating 13 concentrators for better Covid-19 management.

The DC again urged all hospitals in the district to strictly adhere to the guidelines issued by the administration to keep patients in the hospitals until their oxygen level improves as there have been restrictions over the selling of oxygen cylinders for individual usages.