Bengaluru: Even when the government completed a multi-fold plan to overcome the third Covid-19 wave, people continued to risk due to lack of preparedness.
The government has failed to fully implement its own road map to improve infrastructure to overcome the third wave.
For example, it has planned to establish six genome sequencing laboratories in October last year, but even one laboratory operates until now.
The state has proposed to establish these four laboratories in medical colleges – each in Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bellagavi Institute of Medical Sciences, MySore Medical College and Research Institute and Gulbarga Medical Institute of Medical Sciences – and two in the hospital District in Mangaluru and Vijayapura.
Officials said the proposal to establish a laboratory at the district hospital had been dropped, while five labs would be launched in medical colleges, including Bowring Medical College, Bengaluru.
“Five labs are ready, but the approval is delayed from the Consortium of the Genomi SARS-COV-2 India (Insacog).
This has delayed operating it,” said Dr.
V Ravi, Nodal Officer to confirm the genomic SARS-COV-2 in Karnataka.
“Now they have prepared SOPs for the Genome Laboratory, we hope for approval immediately.” Experts said the genome laboratory played an important role since the third wave was driven by the combination of omicrons and delta plus viral variants, and it was important to detect a variant to contain the spread of infection.
For now, three labs in Bengaluru meet this need.
Meanwhile, after the oxygen crisis during the second wave, the government had planned to establish 262 oxygen plants in hospitals throughout Karnataka, but only 190 were operating until now.
In Chamarajanagar, where 24 patients died after the oxygen flow runs out, only two plants have been set.
This district was given seven.
“We have recommended that all beds include oxygenated.
While some hospitals have plants that stand and run, others are in various stages established,” said Dr K Ravi, Chair of the Covid-19 clinical expert committee.
Dr.
MK Sudralan, the state chairman of the Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee, said the infection induced by omicron lighter which means the pressure on medical infrastructure is not so high.
“But the virus mutation cannot be predicted.
The best is to ensure adequate medical infrastructure and enforcement of strict safety norms to avoid sidewalks such as locking,” he said.
One field that seems well prepared is to ensure adequate stock of drugs.
“We have a stock of almost 1.
8 lakh Vials of Remdesivir, which is adequate for now.
We have 56,000 doses of SOCHIprednisolone Sodium Succinate and get other drugs such as Enoxaparin Sodium (Buffer Stock 9.
3 Doses of Lakh) and Dexamethasone (Stock 5.
4 Dosage Lakh) In addition to stock buffers, “said KS LATHA KUMARI,” KS said, executive director, Karnataka State Medical Supplies Corporation Ltd.