A vendor gives her samples for Covid-19 test, in Ranchi on Sunday
RANCHI: A few of the country’s top paediatricians urged chief minister Hemant Soren and his senior bureaucrats to vaccinate the state s young parents on priority, train doctors and paramedics on the treatment of Covid-infected children and set up ICU wards for children and minors below 18 years of age ahead of the third wave which could hit the country soon.
In Jharkhand, there are 1.93 crore children aged under 18 years. On the contrary, there are only 125 paediatricians in the state.
Concerned with reports that the third wave will affect the children most as they are yet to be vaccinated, the state government reached out to the WHO s India representative Dr Rodrico H Orfin, AIIMS New Delhi paediatrics department head Dr Ashok Deorari, prominent paediatric liver specialist Dr Neelam Mohan and NIHMS Bengaluru physician Dr Pradeep Banandur virtually on Sunday afternoon to seek their suggestions on the state s pre