AMRITSAR: Though the authorities have started preparing to meet any eventuality in the event of a great number of kids getting Covid disease, as being assumed, during the next period of coronavirus outbreak, the hospitals are most likely to utilize the exact facilities for your kids that are presently used for the elderly patients. Manager -Primary Government Medical College Dr Rajeev Devgun advised TOI on Sunday they had earmarked a ward with over 50 Covid beds to your kids. “Currently a few kids have been treated for Covid-19 at the kindergarten ward and when need be we’ll convert a couple of wards completely dedicated for kids,” he explained adding that now the hospital had transformed approximately one dozen distinct wards to covid wards. Managing manager, Hartej Hospital, Dr.H S Nagpal advised that the hospital needed the exact Covid beds but no specific or individual arrangement was made solely for the kids. “The beds that have been used to deal with adult patients could be utilized for kids,” he explained. But, Nagpal attracted attention to the dearth of physicians for treating Covid-19 among kids. “Paediatricians have extremely limited knowledge in the managing of both covid 19 among kids because there have never been several Covid 19 instances among youngsters, their symptoms, in addition to behavior and effect, could differ from that of mature covid patients, it’s been moderate in children up to now,” he explained. A senior physician about Fortis hospital Dr. Arun Chopra advised that so much they did not have any individual covid device for those kids and in the event of children coming with Covid-19 they’d be disclosed at exactly the identical ward intended for adults. “No distinctive kids covid units are installed in the vast majority of hospitals also,” he explained. In response to a query over pediatricians expertise in the managing of both Covid-19, Arun responded” We do not have any issue, pediatricians are handling the Covid patients, conventional supportive care has been provided to both children and adult” he explained.
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