Ranchi: Struggling to cope with the number of Covid patients seeking treatment, hospitals in Jharkhand on Thursday asked the state to ensure unhindered supply of oxygen, Remdesivir and human resources. Doctors put forth their suggestions at a hastily summoned virtual meeting with chief minister Hemant Soren and senior bureaucrats involved in managing the pandemic. The meeting was held a day after the number of active cases in the state crossed 35,000-mark for the first time.
Doctors from leading Covid hospitals in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad urged the harkhand government to set up isolation facilities for patients with mild or no symptom to rein in the rate of infectivition and reduce the burden on hospitals. They also suggested that nursing homes and smaller hospitals be converted to Covid hospitals and equipped with oxygen support and other paraphernalia to reduce the inflow at higher centres.