New Delhi: Is Delhi preparing to deal with one Covid-19 wave? The jury still comes out in this matter.
City and hospital doctors say, at least settings are being carried out to ensure lack of medical oxygen, the cause of the serious crisis in the current receding wave.
The revival of the infection surprised everyone, conceding Dr.
Arun Gupta, a member of the Committee formed by the Delhi government to prepare an action plan for the third wave.
He added that this time, the government was alert and ready for all possible possibilities.
“To meet the demand for medical oxygen, 27 swing pressure swings of oxygen plants have been installed in the state managed by the state and at least a dozen will be installed soon.
The central government also provides support to the country and to a managed hospital to increase oxygen storage and supply, “He said.
Dr.
Gupta added that the state government was also in the process of procuring a cryogenic tanker to transport medical oxygen from manufacturing factories.
“Delhi recorded 28,395 cases in one day on April 20.
While we are optimistic that a similar situation will not happen again, we are preparing to handle scenarios that are even worse than more than 40,000 cases a day,” Delhi’s medical council said the President.
Dr.
Rajesh Malhotra, head of the trauma aiims, said the hospital had assigned two new ICU floors with a Augmented capacity of 28 beds.
“The ICU will be operated on July 31, complete with ventilators and sophisticated monitors that are newly obtained for third waves that are possible with special emphasis on child care,” Malhotra said.
The AIIMS trauma center has been designated as a special center for Covid maintenance.
Malhotra said he had bought 40 ventilators with pediatric mode, children’s fiber-optical bronchoscopy, pediatric laryngoscope and heart monitor with pediatric cuffs, among other equipment, to be fully ready to manage infected children.
There are concerns that new waves will affect children more than adults, although there is no scientific evidence to support this belief.
To handle patients with sophisticated lung damage, AIIMS acquires ECMO, a pumping machine and oxenizes the blood of patients outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest.
Some public hospitals have this facility at this time.
According to the Sarin SK, Director, Institute of Heart and Biliary, Vasant Kunj, “One field that lacks our vaccination.
Only 22 lakh people who have received a vaccine dose.
This is very low.
In addition, there are no trials planned to assess The needs and efficacy of the third dose / booster.
“Sarin also emphasizes the need to make Covid tests available at a lower cost.
“Time-time tests, tracking and isolation are the key to controlling the spread of disease.
For this, the government must ensure the availability of easy testing facilities.
Also, we need to expand infrastructure for genome sequencing to be able to identify newer variants of Coronavirus which causes covid,” he said.