Himachal CM says senior doctors must daily visit Covid-19 patients to ensure proper treatment

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Himachal CM says senior doctors must daily visit Covid-19 patients to ensure proper treatment

Monday, 28 September 2020 | PNS | Shimla

A common strategy must be prepared to provide proper treatment to the Covid-19 patients, especially with co-morbid illness, Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Sunday. Presiding over the video conference with the Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents of Police, Chief Medical Officers, Principals and Medical Superintendents of Medical Colleges of the State from Shimla, Thakur  expressed concern over the increase in number of deaths of Covid-19 patients during a last few days in the State and said the doctors must ensure proper treatment to the patients especially the patients with co-morbid illness.

He said that proper protocol must be adopted for home isolation for the asymptotic patients at home, adding that it has been felt that such patients at home do not get proper treatment and care.

He said that such patients must be treated as per the standard operating procedure and proper hygiene and cleanliness must be maintained in the Covid-19 hospitals. The Chief Minister said that patients must be provided Oxygen cylinders if required and added that hot water, Kada and nutritious food must be made available to the patients besides developing a mechanism for communication of the Covid-19 patients and their family members.

He said that senior doctors must daily visit the Covid-19 patients so that the patients get proper treatment, directing Medical Superintendents of all the Medical Colleges and major Zonal Hospitals in the State to ensure at least two rounds in a day to monitor all the facilities such as ward cleanliness, treatment to the patients, quality of food, and condition of toilets in their hospitals.

Thakur said special thrust must be laid on ensuring better health facilities in IGMC Shimla, Dr RPMC, Tanda and LBSMC, Ner Chowk keeping in view the large number of Covid-19 patients in these medical colleges and hospitals. He said that proper strategy for Information Education and Communication (IEC) must be framed to motivate the patients with ILI symptoms to immediately rush to hospital without delay, so that they may be provided with immediate treatment. This would help in timely treatment of the patients, he added.

The Chief Minister said that isolation wards in Chamba, Hamirpur and Nahan Medical Colleges would start functioning from Monday and this would also reduce the referral cases to IGMC Shimla, Dr RPMC, Tanda and LBSMC, Ner Chowk. He said that 15 to 20 bedded isolation facilities would be provided in each of these medical colleges to facilitate the patients.

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