Ludhiana: Health authorities try to place the infrastructure needed in the case of the third wave of Covid touching the district.
They also focus on child care, as said the next wave can affect more children.
Dr.
Ramesh Bhagat District Epidemiology said they arranged adequate facilities before the third possible wave and they already had a system for sufficient beds (both for moderate and heavy L2 cases) and oxygen plants were being established in various hospitals.
“We have to close the L2 facility at the school to work when the case falls, but we can open it if there is a surge.
We can have more than 200 beds there.
In addition, we can have 50 beds at the Jawaddi Community Health Center (CHC) and 100 L2 at the Hospital of Mother and Child (MCH), Vardhman.
We can have 30 L2 beds in the sub-division hospital (SDH) in Raikot and have sent a proposal for it, besides we can arrange 30 beds in Samrala SDH, 30 L2 Beds in Jagraon Sdh, 50 at the Covid Care Center in Rara Sahib and 50 L2 Beds in Khanna Sdh, “Health Officers said.
He added that oxygen plants appeared in many district government hospitals.
Raikot Himanshu Gupta HR, which monitored the arrangement of oxygen plants at the hospital, said that two plants 1,000 LPM (liters per minute) will appear in a civil hospital and ESI Hospital in Ludhiana, funds that are being sent by the central government.
And peripheral expenditure, including the manufacture of plant bases, DG sets and electrical connections, are being carried out by the government of the Punjab from state disaster relief funds.
He said four factories were being installed through donations: 250 LPM factories in Raikot SDH, 100 LPM in Vardhman MCH, 100 LPM in Samrala SDH and 500 LPM in private hospitals in Ludhiana.
The private hospital plant will be funded by CII.
“We have also asked the state government for the factory at the Covid Care Center in Rara Sahib and Khanna SDH.
Hopefully, the oxygen factory in Raikot has been completed on July 15 and the other is expected to be installed on July 31,” the officer said.
“This plant uses natural air according to the latest technology that is different from oxygen cylinders and liquid medical oxygen used before,” he added.
Because there is concern that children may vulnerable in the third wave, the facilities needed are being established in a civil hospital.
“We have a 700 LPM oxygen factory at the moment and 1,000 LPM factories will appear in a civil hospital.
We also have 170 beds, the 154 is L2 and L3 left.
Of these, we have 24 beds 24 beds at Insulation facilities in a civil hospital and we have two beds with pediatric ventilators for severe patients.
We also improve facilities for children who come with multisystem inflammatory syndrome after four to six weeks recovering from Covid and have made the ICU eight beds for them at the mother and child hospital, “Covid Care in-Charge at the Civil Hospital Dr.
Hatinder Kaur” During the second wave, we are not ready, so there are many deaths.
The authorities must ensure that before the possibility of the third wave, there is an adequate bed , trained staff and oxygen supply.
They must specifically check how many pediatrics are trained there, when children are considered to be rented N in the next wave, “said President Ludhiana Ima Dr.
Saroj Aggarwal.
Training for children’s care of an official at a private hospital and medical college said they were training health workers, including doctors from government hospitals, to handle Covid pediatric patients in front of the possible third wave.
With O2 plants, child care, Ludhiana put infrastructure in place for the third wave
