CHANDIGARH: With the ongoing speculations of a third wave of coronavirus pandemic, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday alerted the health department officials to ensure ‘Covid-appropriate’ health infrastructure in the state.
The chief minister took detailed updates of all medical facilities pertaining to Covid, like ventilator beds, oxygen equipped beds, ICU beds, availability of oxygen cylinders and concentrators, injections---Remdesvir, Amphotericin, Tocilizumab so that there will be no shortage of any equipment or medication for the people of the state amidst the Covid-crisis.
The CM directed the officials to conduct a 'gap analysis in the health department to strengthen the infrastructure and appoint an adequate number of doctors, nurses and paramedics.
He asked the officials of the health department to sensitise the medical staff and ensure rationalisation of staff. He further asked them to augment the medical staff so that there is no shortage in the near future.
Besides this, he asked the officers concerned to conduct an exercise to check the present availability of ICU beds, ventilator beds and oxygen-equipped beds, necessary medicines, neonatal ventilators and paediatric ventilators so as to bridge the gap in present healthcare infrastructure.
Sharing concerns with regard to Covid-paediatric cases, Khattar asked the officials of the health department to anticipate the health infrastructure required to treat Covid-paediatric cases and make necessary arrangement accordingly.
