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POLICY FORUM
30 June 2021
India’s COVID-19 woes have rightly attracted the attention of the world, but the rest of South Asia is hardly sitting pretty, Jeevethan Selvachandran writes.
Over the last few months, the world has watched India struggle through an unimaginable COVID-19 situation – over the first half of 2021, the pandemic’s second wave wreaked havoc on the country’s fragile health sector, bringing it repeatedly to the brink of collapse.
This prompted analysts to term the situation in India a ticking time bomb for the whole South Asian region. One country that has seen this play out in a large second wave is the war-ravaged and economically burdened Sri Lanka.
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COLOMBO (News 1st): A consignment of high-flow Oxygen therapy units that can supply medical Oxygen at high-speed to COVID-19 patients, will be brought to the country on Saturday (May 08), Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project said.
The equipment manufactured in New Zealand will be purchased through India, Dr. Jayasundara Bandara, the Project Director of the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project told News 1st on Saturday (May 08).
“Given the prevailing spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Ministry of Health has observed that a considerable number of active COVID-19 patients should be provided medical Oxygen at a high-speed as a result of damages caused to the lungs in the respiratory system. If these patients are given Oxygen at the normal speed as in the case of general wards, the supply is inadequate to fulfill the Oxygen requirement of the body,” Dr. Jayasundara Bandara elaborated.
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COLOMBO (News 1st): Plans are in place to establish six (06) more hospitals for the treatment of the increasing rate of COVID-19 patients reported from across the country, Sri Lanka’s Covid 19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project said on Saturday (May 08).
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) was requested to issue the environment reports for the construction of these hospitals, Dr. Jayasundara Bandara, the Project Director of the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project told News 1st.
According to Dr. Jayasundara Bandara, measures are also underway to manufacture 8000 new beds for COVID-19 patients.
Moreover, the programme to convert 32 hospitals in the island into COVID-19 Treatment Centres will be completed in the next two weeks, Dr. Bandara noted.
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