According to district magistrate Abhishek Prakash, the district administration and health department will coordinate in arranging PPET kits, oxygen, remdesivir and other medicines in all 17 private hospitals. Apart from this, the information of all patients admitted here will be available in the Integrated Command and Control Centre established in Lucknow.
Similar to the pandemic’s onset last year, its second wave has impacted Pune district drastically, leading to a paucity of beds for patients. The challenge has kept the district administration on its toes, working round-the-clock to increase facilities for Covid patients and ensure no one is deprived of treatment.
The state relief and rehabilitation department on Tuesday released nearly Rs 47 crore to enhance healthcare infrastructure in the three districts of Marathwada.
Prakash Group of Hospitals opened a 100-bed Covid facility at Greater Noida’s Omega 1 Sector on Sunday.
“Healthcare manpower is precious. Uniform practices have to be put in place throughout the country. Substantial differences are noticed from district to district in how doctors and healthcare workers are deployed. Their service situations differ and mostly reflect the logistics of the district,” the IMA letter to the PM said on Sunday.
In a series of tweets, the PMO also said while the 500-bed hospital at Bihar, Patna will be inaugurated today, the 500-bed hospital at Muzaffarpur will be inaugurated very soon.
Commonwealth Games Village, constructed as a living area for athletes participating in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, is likely to start admitting Covid-19 patients from Monday
CEO of Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY, Indu Bhushan speaks to ET about the learnings from delivering the first one crore treatments and the challenges ahead.
The Delhi Medical Association on Sunday slammed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for warning and threatening the hospitals about the COVID-19 patients' admissions and tests. It also condemned the move to lodge FIR against private COVID facility, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi.
Officials said that as the government learnt from its own experiences and those of other countries, superfluous testing could be done away with as it would increase capacity for testing new patients and open avenues for larger surveillance.
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