Ranchi: Amid the surge in new Covid-19 cases in the state capital and across Jharkhand, the health department on Sunday asked the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) management to prepare 250 Covid-designated beds by Wednesday while the city airport has appealed to the passengers to reach the airport three hours before their flight departures to avoid rushes and follow safety protocols.
On Sunday, health secretary Kamal Kishore Soan chaired a meeting attended by Rims director Kameshwar Prasad, the institute’s critical care head Dr Pradeep Bhattacharya and other senior officials of the state health mission. During the meeting, Soan asked the Rims authorities to get the beds ready.
As the volume of samples to be collected at airport will be over 2,000 on a daily basis, the district health authorities have started their preparations for the same and three booths will be set up outside the airport building for this (Representative image)
RANCHI: Amid a steep rise in new Covid-19 cases across the state since the middle of March, the Ranchi district administration and authorities at the Birsa Munda International Airport have decided to intensify screening of travellers entering Jharkhand from other parts of the country.
State health secretary K K Soan has directed the authorities to start mandatory testing of every passenger from all parts of the country, while the airport officials will bar the entry of people without masks and deploy extra manpower inside and outside the terminal to implement Covid protocols and penalize violators.
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Indigo flight made an emergency landing at the Birsa Munda International Airport
RANCHI: A Hyderabad-bound Indigo flight from Bagdogra in West Bengal made an emergency landing at the Birsa Munda International Airport here on Saturday morning after a 21-year-old passenger on board suffered a fit of seizure. The patient is now shifted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) and doctors treating her said she is critical.
According to airport officials, the patient was travelling alone from Bagdogra to Hyderabad and had developed anxiety midway. She was given first aid and oxygen support by the airline staff on board and as her condition had deteriorated, the captain of the flight decided to make an emergency landing at the airport here.
Bokaro: Although Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) served notices to the squatters settled around the airport here, which is being expanded into a commercial one, illegal residents continue to enter the premise from the Dundibagh area by scaling the eight-feet high boundary wall just to defecate.
The workers engaged in the construction of the boundary walls find it difficult to work amid the filth. A labour said, “After coming to work each morning, we pour mud on the excreta to stop the smell, which otherwise makes it difficult for us to work.”
The squatters use the scaffolding of the new boundary wall to enter the premises. Wilfred Kerketta, deputy general manager and the in-charge of air traffic control at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport, said, “We will take a tour of Bokaro Airport next week to assess the completion of work.”