Five patients shifted
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Due to oxygen scarcity, five patients from Lotus Hospital were shifted to the BIMS Government Medical College Hospital in Belagavi on Sunday.
The scarcity was reported to the district COVID response team that has government officers, doctors and NGO members. In a few hours, ambulances with oxygen supply were sent to Lotus Hospital and the patients were shifted.
Spandan Multi Specialty Hospital said that its oxygen supply was depleting and that it could not admit any more patients. It asked patients to go to BIMS Hospital.
Deputy Commissioner K. Harish Kumar said that he would ask officers to address the problem.
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AAA Even as all arrangements have been made for the counting of votes polled for the byelections held in one Lok Sabha and two Assembly segments on Sunday, adherence to COVID-19 protocol is an additional mandatory requirement this time in the wake of the surge in cases.
Byelections were held in two Assembly constituencies of Basavakalyan in Bidar district and Maski in Raichur district, and in Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency.
This time around, the district administrations have taken extra care to ensure strict adherence to safety protocols. In all three constituencies, producing COVID-19 negative reports in addition to the requisite passes is mandatory for gaining entry to the counting centres.
ICCC to be used as war room
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The Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) set up by Belagavi Smart City Limited will be utilised as a COVID war room, Deputy Commissioner K. Harish Kumar said in Belagavi on Friday.
He visited the centre and spoke to the engineers there. He asked them to monitor COVID-19 management activities by using the equipment and resources available at the centre.
He asked them to create a website to centrally monitor tracing and testing, supply of drugs and oxygen from across the district.
He asked officers to get real time data from the taluks and aggregate and analyse it at the centre. This will reflect the situation of scarcity of drugs and oxygen, he said.
Nodal officers to manage health crisis appointed
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Deputy Commissioner K. Harish Kumar has appointed nodal officers to assist him in COVID management. He has appointed officers to check on hospital administration, supply and use of oxygen, distribution of drugs, including Remdesivir, and other essentials.
The officers will visit hospitals, drug storage centres and oxygen factories once every day and submit reports.
They can hear Public grievances and issue orders to rectify anomalies in logistics supply.
The officers in charge are Additional Deputy Commissioner Y. Yogeshwar for Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) that has the most patients and Belagavi City Corporation Commissioner K.H. Jagadish for all other hospitals.
Belagavi facing multi-fold increase in logistics arrangements
With the Union government allowing all adults to get vaccinated from May 1, the State government is preparing to increase its capacity to store, deliver and administer vaccine doses.
For large districts such as Belagavi, this means a 10-fold increase in logistics arrangements.
When the Centre fixed the age limit for people to receive the vaccine at 60, the State government fixed a target of 4.4 lakh in the district. But if all adults are to be vaccinated, then the district administration will have to provide vaccine shots to 35 lakh people.
Health Department officers say that this is a tall order, as this would be the largest vaccination drive ever taken up in the district. “The biggest vaccination drive till now has been Pulse Polio when around 16 lakh children were vaccinated. The current target would be double that number. We need to work on storage, transport and delivery,’’ a senior health officer said.