Ranchi: Prominent Covid-19 hospitals in Ranchi on Tuesday said they have stocked up enough oxygen to last 72 hours. On Monday night, the state department of health, medical education and family welfare asked all hospitals in the state to stock up liquid medical oxygen and ensure that they have alternate sources of power to keep their medical equipment functional.
The department’s directive was issued keeping in mind the cyclonic storm Yaas, which is due to make landfall in Odisha on Wednesday and head inland towards south Jharkhand the same day.
Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), which currently has the capacity to treat 1,108 Covid-19 patients indoors, said it has stocked up 800 Jumbo D-type oxygen cylinders. “We have also procured two oxygen cylinder tanks and kept them on standby. Our own PSA Oxygen plant is fully functional and two of its tanks are full,” Dr Rakesh Ranjan, the chief medical officer of Rims, told TOI. After Covid-19 cases began declining, Rim
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The Hemant Soren government has asked many private healthcare facilities across Jharkhand to stop their vaccination drive against Covid-19, putting hundreds of beneficiaries awaiting their second jab in a fix.
Owners of private hospitals in the state said on Sunday that the state government also asked them to hand over their vaccine stocks without offering any explanation for doing so.
“We were asked to stop our vaccination drive in the last week of April, and by May 5, the government also asked us to surrender all the doses of vaccine we had in stock,” said Yogesh Gambhir, the owner of Ranchi-based Raj Hospital.
Ranchi: State health minister Banna Gupta on Thursday said the government will not hesitate in taking action against those private healthcare facilities which are unwilling cooperate with the state in its fight against Covid-19. Gupta’s remarks came after representatives of a few private hospitals in Ranchi did not turn up for a high-level meeting held at the Institute of Public Health in Namkum to review the Covid-19 situation in Jharkhand despite the health minister inviting them.
“I have directed the MD of National Health Mission (NHM) to issue a show-cause notice to those who didn’t turn up for today’s meeting. I have also directed senior officials to conduct a surprise inspection of such hospitals and if they are found flouting government norms, they will be booked under the Disaster Management Act, 2005,” Gupta said after the meeting.
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The hospital managements were also asked to maintain a database of Covid-19 patients who are being admitted to their facilities.
RANCHI: Anticipating a spurt in the number of hospitalisations, the Ranchi district administration on Thursday asked private hospitals of the city to increase their Covid-19 beds.
Deputy commissioner Chhavi Ranjan met representatives of the hospitals at the Collectorate Building and also urged them to stick to tariffs which were set by the state health department in the peak of the pandemic last year. The hospital managements were also asked to maintain a database of Covid-19 patients who are being admitted to their facilities.