Noida / Ghaziabad: The Gautam Budh Nagar Health Department and Ghaziabad Regency, take lessons from the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, has increased the number of oxygen generation factories, hospital beds for use by covid patients, if cases increase, and child beds for children -The child, the doctor predicts, can be affected by more than this.
OxyGenduring the second wave peak in April-May, oxygen demand in GB Nagar is 125 tons per day, which is tried the district to meet with liquid medical oxygen.
In Ghaziabad, the requirements are almost 80 tons.
However, only 55-60 tons of liquid medical oxygen are available in the days.
The hospital must face acute oxygen shortages, and the government faces criticism for not planning ahead of the situation.
GB Nagar, at that time, had a PSA oxygen factory (pressure swing adsorption) in all districts, while Ghaziabad did not have.
The Ministry of Health must use oxygen cylinders to meet the oxygen demand for covid patients.
Now, GB Nagar has 17 PSA oxygen factories while Ghaziabad has 18.
Some hospitals even have more than one oxygen plant.
For example, Noida Covid Hospital has one factory with an oxygen production capacity of 500 LPM (liters per minute) and two factories with a capacity of 1,000 LPM.
Super Special Pediatric Hospital and Postgraduate Teaching Institute (SSPHPTI) in Sector 30, better known as PGI children, has two plants with oxygen production capacity of 250 LPM and 1000 LPM respectively.
The Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) Hospital has four plants, with three capacities of 150, 500 and 1000 LPM.
In Ghaziabad, the MMG District Hospital and a Joint District Hospital (DCH) have four plants, each of two.
Of the two plants on DCH, someone dies and is repaired in preparation for the possibility of the third wave.
In addition, the two districts have ordered private hospitals, having more than 50 beds, to install oxygen plants in their place.
So far, six private hospitals in GB Nagar and seven in Ghaziabad have followed orders.
The hospital bed before the second wave, only four hospitals, had 758 beds, handling Covid cases at GB Nagar.
Now, 31 hospitals, have 4,500 beds, ready to overcome these cases.
In Ghaziabad, there were 13 hospitals with 1,438 beds between them, and now, there are 61 hospitals with almost 3,500 beds.
In the past nine months, the number of hospital beds has increased almost six times in GB Nagar and two and a half times in Ghaziabad.
A number of limited covid dishes function today, but the number of beds, according to the Ministry of Health, can rise substantially in several hours.
A senior health official at GB Nagar said, “We have been doing exercises to measure emergency response, and we are sure to activate Covid Hospital with short notice.” Ghaziabad District Supervision Officer, Dr.
RK Gupta, said that “detailed contingency plans, including when and how many private hospitals will be converted to Covid Hospital.
We have identified more hospitals to treat patients and are ready with all the preparations to handle cases.” Bedsduring pediatric second wave, Ghaziabad does not have a pediatric child care unit (trigger) for children with covid because most do not require hospitalization.
GB Nagar only has 50 beds in their hospital.
However, health experts have estimated that more children may be affected in the third possible third wave.
So, the number of beds trigger has increased to 440 in GB Nagar.
In Ghaziabad, almost 760 beds triggered in private hospitals and the government.
However, the shortage of pediatrics is still a problem.
A child doctor who was appointed under the head of the medical officer was responsible for all Covid cases related to children in GB Nagar.
There are only two pediatrics at DCH, Ghaziabad, for the pediatric ward of 20 beds.
Staff from other hospitals have undergone training to overcome the situation if the number of children affected by Covid increases exponentially, officials said.