Bihar frontline employees crunch as 700 well being employees, cops contaminated

with bihar’s well being infrastructure reeling beneath a rising variety of Covid circumstances, its capability to deal with sufferers has been additional hit as about 500 docs, nurses, lab technicians and different employees have been contaminated by the coronavirus during the last two weeks. Besides, over 200 policemen have additionally examined constructive within the state.
Director of AIIMS, Patna, Dr PK Singh on Monday knowledgeable the High Court that 248 staffers of the hospital are contaminated with the virus. The courtroom ordered {that a} two-member group, together with the AIIMS director, be fashioned and requested it to submit a report on the working situations and well being standing of docs and different staffers.
Dr Vinay Kumar, president of Resident Doctors’ Association at AIIMS, stated, “At least 120 doctors from our hospital have been infected… We had already raised the concern and demanded for rotational quarantine of doctors but nothing has been done.”

AIIMS, Patna, elevated its variety of Covid beds from 130 to 210 until final week.
Nearly 70 staffers are additionally contaminated on the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), the one devoted Covid hospital within the state capital. However, the hospital has elevated its mattress capability from 160 to 500 beds.
Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), one other premier hospital treating Covid sufferers, additionally has about 130 staffers affected by Covid.

Bihar has almost 50,000 lively Covid circumstances and recorded about 150 deaths during the last 15 days. The state has been testing over 1 lakh samples day by day.
Amid complaints of oxygen scarcity, Health Minister Mangal Pandey stated, “We have received a fresh stock of oxygen cylinders to replenish the stock of hospitals.”
Former Deputy CM and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi stated he had additionally spoken to Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya to replenish the inventory of Remdesivir at Bihar’s hospitals.