Nagpur: The mucormycosis district task force has shown to this Nagpur bench of Bombay high court a fact-finding questionnaire by specialists discovered 35 Covid hospitals operating with no disease prevention committees.
The task force has also issued a 12-point Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to hospitals concerning different disease control processes.
The poll also revealed that at 31 Covid centers no microbiological surveillance has been performed from the wards and also the Intensive Care Units (ICU) to remove harmful organisms, and it will be a compulsory safety and hygiene rule to the hospital and healthcare market.
The large court, hearing that a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL), had issued an order on June two directing the police to enlarge the reach of the task force to incorporate all kinds of bacterial infections.
The court had directed police to produce labour and other facilities accessible to conduct surveys of hospitals in town and provide a report prior to it.
Senior counselor Shreerang Bhandarkar was appointed amicus curiae at the PIL.
From 161 hospitals, 119 were researched through the workout.
Even though zonal medical officials of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) surveyed 113 private Committed Covid Hospitals (DCH) and six NMC hospitals, also a professional group of this task force conducted the polls in Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Mayo, AIIMS, Shalinitai Meghe Hospital, along with Lata Mangeshkar hospital.
The group included infectious disease experts including Dr Milind Bhrusundi, Dr Nitin Shinde, and also Dr Ashwini Tayade, microbiologists Dr Dinesh Agrawal, Dr Meena Mishra (AIIMS), intensivist Dr Kamal Bhutada, maxillofacial surgeon Dr Ramakrishna, otolaryngologist Dr Prashant Nikhade others.
According to the affidavit filed prior to the court, 84 physicians had disease prevention committees.
Approximately 88 hospitals were running microbiological surveillance while 85 had disease control nurses.
District collector Ravindra Thakare, via an affidavit, also advised the court which microbiological surveillance had been conducted in the 3 government medical schools (GMCH, both Mayo and also AIIMS) although not regularly performed in two private medical schools, Shalinitai Meghe Hospital, along with Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, equally in Hingna.
The affidavit also underlined that disease prevention committee meetings weren’t conducted regular basis.
According to the affidavit, admissions are served on the defaulting hospitals from the task force member and also health care officer, wellness, Nagpur Municipal company (NMC) Dr Sanjay Chilkar.
In the same way, personal medical schools were issued note by secretary of this job force Dr Deepak Selokar, who’s additionally District Heath Officer (DHO).
The police have requested the hospitals with no infection control panel and microbiological surveillance to follow the required guidelines and also revert.
The court has been also offer the listing of hospitals in which these committees and surveillance were not set up.
No Disease prevention panel in 35 Covid hosps, HC Advised
