Facilities of ICUs and ventilators and beds are being strengthened at all the health centres. All the hospitals were recently asked to furnish their requirements of necessary equipment and other medical facilities and their demands have already been received by the health department. The process of acquiring all the required equipment has already started and all the needed materials would be made available to the hospitals soon.
The state government has started making necessary preparations to face the imminent third Covid-19 wave likely to hit the state by the end of the current year and protect the lives of its people, especially the children.
State health minister Mangal Pandey told the newspaper here on Sunday that all the health care centres in the state, both in urban and rural areas, have been directed to make necessary arrangements for proper treatment of people likely to be infected in the third wave. The health department has been making preparations at all levels based on the experiences of the first two waves. “Special arrangements are being made for the treatment of children,” he said.
Giving details of the preparations, the minister said special wards for children with necessary facilities are being created in all the hospitals lacking such wards. Facilities of ICUs and ventilators and beds are being strengthened at all the health centres.
All the hospitals were recently asked to furnish their requirements of necessary equipment and other medical facilities and their demands have already been received by the health department. The process of acquiring all the required equipment has already started and all the needed materials would be made available to the hospitals soon, Pandey said.
The minister further pointed out that cryogenic tanks are being installed in hospitals for continuous supply of oxygen and ventilators are also being made available at all the health centres. BiPAP (bilevel positive air pressure) machines for children are being installed at all the paediatric intensive care units (PICU), neonatal intensive care units (NICU) and special newborn care units (SNCUs) in children wards of health centres. Besides, essential medicines would be made available in all the health centres in rural and urban areas of the state, he said.
The minister said steps have already been initiated by the health department to appoint a sufficient number of doctors and paramedical staff in various hospitals and health care centres. The process of appointment of doctors and nurses in different hospitals has already been started and all the appointments are likely to be finalized soon, he said.
The minister asserted that the government is leaving no stone unturned for strengthening the health care infrastructure with a view to protecting the lives of its people.
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