Separate isolation wards to ease load at VIMSAR

By Express News Service
SAMBALPUR: With the load on isolation wards of the 2 Covid hospitals on the premises of VIMSAR, Burla, mounting resulting from big influx of suspected sufferers, the hospital authorities are planning to arrange separate wards in numerous departments to handle the group.

As per the Covid protocols, sufferers who come to the Casualty should endure a fast antigen take a look at earlier than admission. Patients with Covid signs and comorbidities are admitted to isolation wards of the Covid hospitals and their RT-PCR take a look at is carried out. They are shifted to their respective departments solely after their RT-PCR report comes detrimental. However, with sufferers influx to the Casualty rising manifold, the isolation wards have little or no house to accommodate them.

There are 80 beds within the isolation wards of the Covid hospital together with 50 beds in Covid Hospital-1 and 30 beds in Covid Hospital-2. However, on a median, a minimum of 40 suspected sufferers are being despatched to the isolation wards every day.  Superintendent of VIMSAR Dr Lal Mohan Nayak mentioned resulting from unavailability of beds at isolation wards, the suspected Covid sufferers are being instantly admitted to the departments for remedy.

Even because the hospital authorities are conscious that that is placing the lives of different sufferers in danger, they’re helpless. “Considering the situation we have decided to set up separate isolation wards in the departments. We are planning to set up the wards in the departments with a high inflow of patients in the first phase. As an alternative, we are converting one of the floors of the new 300-bed Covid hospital into an isolation ward”, he mentioned.

Official sources on the hospital mentioned, within the first section the authorities have deliberate to set-up isolation wards in three departments together with normal medication, pulmonary medication and gynaecology. For the time being, 20 beds can be positioned in every of those wards. Subsequently, the numbers can be elevated as per requirement.