Private hospitals ready to give Covid-19 vaccine shots to health care workers
Private hospitals ready to give Covid-19 vaccine shots to health care workers
Private hospitals across the country are also part of the government-run Covid-19 vaccination drive. They will provide logistics for centres while the central and state officials will oversee the process
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UPDATED: January 11, 2021 19:21 IST
Private hospitals, designated as Covid-19 vaccination centres, were also part of the nationwide dry run held last week (File photo)
Most private hospitals that were part of the dry run are ready to administer vaccines to the first line of priority groups - the health care workers, frontline workers and the 27 crore elderly population. In Delhi, there are 89 vaccination centres or points where vaccination will take place.
Private hospitals in the state can vaccinate their doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers on their campus using their own manpower, the Bengal government conveyed to the heads of private hospitals at a meeting on Saturday.
The state health department will begin training vaccinators in private hospitals to administer the Covid-19 vaccine from next week. The department will also be choosing the private hospitals that can be made vaccination sites for their staff.
The decisions were communicated to the private hospitals by the secretary of the state government’s health department at the meeting called to discuss the implementation of the Swasthya Sathi scheme, a cashless health insurance project of the state government.
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The Chief Minister directed the district administration to ensure that people from the Lodha and Santhal Adivasi communities are included in the “Swasthya Sathi” programme.
The state health department on Monday met representatives of private hospitals to assuage their fears about the price structure of the government’s Swasthya Sathi universal healthcare scheme. The private health providers sought a review of the rates mentioned in the scheme.
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More general beds would be released than ICU beds. The infection rate in the state has been falling since September. Kolkata: General beds at private hospitals to be released | Photo Credit: PTI
Kolkata: Covid beds at private hospitals that were taken up by the West Bengal government since March will be released after there is a fall in the number of Covid cases in the state.
According to sources of the
Times of India, more general beds would be released than ICU beds. The infection rate in West Bengal has been falling since September and the number of people requiring hospitalisation has come down.
Glare on ‘unjustified’ ICU stay Practice ‘common’ in government, private hospitals
Many Covid patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit or kept there for a prolonged period even if they do not need critical care support, state government officials involved in tackling the pandemic and insurance companies have alleged.
Most private hospitals have increased the number of ICU beds for Covid19 patients and many have realised that the demand might not be as much as they had anticipated.
Some of the insurance companies said they were regularly seeking justifications for decisions to keep stable Covid patients in ICUs. Insurance firms said they often refrained from deducting from reimbursements because doctors said they felt the patient needed ICU care.