Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Secretary S C Mohapatra on Thursday reviewed the covid situation with District Collectors, Municipal Corporation Commissioners, government and private hospitals.
He directed to keep all beds, ICU, Ambulance ready within a week to provide treatment to Covid infected patients to contain the possible third wave of covid.
He also directed to deploy Rapid Response Team, open call centres and control rooms at the district, ULB and state level as per the protocol and activate the system for testing, tracing and treatment of covid patients.
The Health and Family Welfare department was asked to prepare guidelines for all private hospitals, government-private corporate bodies and urban local bodies to work in a coordinated manner.
The meeting decided that special covid hospitals will operate at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Berhampur, Angul, Talcher, Puri, Ganjam, Sambalpur, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Sundargarh, Baripada, Bolangir, Kandhamal, Rourkela, and Ganjam besides some other selected places of the state.
The provision for treatment of covid infected patients would be made in all government hospitals. Testing, treatment and Ambulance services would be provided to the covid patients free of cost.
Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare department R K Sharma said 55 special Covid hospitals were operating during the second wave.
He said as many as 94,000 beds in medical centres, Covid care centres, and special covid centres,3500 beds in ICU and HDU and 1102 ventilators were available in the state for treatment of covid cases.
