More space for patients
BHUBANESWAR: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has kept 221 train coaches ready to serve as quarantine or isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients. These coaches are stationed at five stations Bhubaneswar, Puri, Sambalpur, Titilagarh and Kantabanji in the state.
The Covid coaches will be used after after the state government puts a requisition for the same. It hasn’t so far, railway sources said.
The Mancheswar carriage repair workshop, coaching depots in Puri, Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam and other facilities of the ECoR have converted the train coaches into quarantine facilities. “Necessary medical equipment like oxygen cylinders will also be provided to the patients. Stands have been created in the coaches to hold the oxygen cylinders. A cabin in each coach has been reserved for medical and paramedical staff,” a railway officer said.
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Bengaluru: India needs more hands on the deck to help our overburdened medical fraternity to deal with the surge in covid cases
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The government has decided to deploy medical interns and doctors seeking higher education for covid duty. Also, it has said it will offer government jobs on a preferential basis to healthcare workers who have performed or commit themselves to at least 100 days of corona service.
India needs more hands on the deck to help our overburdened medical fraternity to deal with the surge in covid cases. Mobilizing those who may have just become doctors, or even interns yet to get their MBBS degrees, should relieve some of the pressure. Some of them, no doubt, would not be qualified to dispense medical advice on their own, but could provide healthcare under supervision. While selfless dedication has long been a cultural expectation of medical professionals, it’s a sign of realism that the Centre has throw