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B’luru: Towards the 3rd Wave, Piki Set the CCC for Children

Bengaluru: With some experts suggest that if the third wave of Covid-19 infection hits, it will affect the most children, the government and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) improve health facilities to care for children.
For this purpose, the Special Pediatric Covid Treatment Center (CCC) has been established in South Bengaluru to serve infected children and pregnant women.
The three-story facilities, which are waiting for inauguration, is the Bbmp initiative, NGO Wells Fargo and Mantra Foundation and Regional Cooperative Institute Management.
Located at the Cooperative Management Center Institute, Padmanabhanagar.
This step comes after experts prefer to have CCC exclusively for children to manage surges in case – should it happen – among infants and young people.
To ensure children feel comfortable, CCC has playstation and walls decorated with colorful designed cartoons.
Children will be given mythological books and those who are interested can spend time drawing and in art and crafts.
The aim is to help children relax and prevent them from reducing their infection.
Parents will be allowed to stay, said BBMP source.
The two upstairs is for children.
The second floor entry was leisure forest, with an elephant, deer, duck and turtle was present to look after children.
Each room is painted in a double color but has a different design.
One room has a mini zoo painting on the wall, which shows all the animals relaxing.
The other rooms have a painting of a planetarium.
BBMP data over the past four months shows a pediatric case (0-18 years) produces around 11% of total covid infections.
In the age group 0-12, the total number of Covid cases has been reduced from 2,643 in June to 778 in July and 309 to the second week of August.
“We have created this pediatric facility because we feel we need more sophisticated precautions and treatments in the future,” said Gaurav Gupta, Chief Commissioner, BBMP.
“This is basically for pediatric care and it is a training.
The center will be led by senior pediatrician Dr.
Saraswati.” This facility has 42 beds, 16 of them are reserved for pregnant women.
It’s all on the ground floor.
Each room has two beds with attached toilets.
The cylinders and oxygen concentrators are available at the center which will accommodate mild to moderate patients, said Gupta.
The BBMP health department has deployed doctors and in-house nurses to care for children at CCC.
Advanced ambulances are also available.
This center is ready to make reception and is waiting for formal inauguration.

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