Ramp up Covid testing, increase beds: VP Singh Badnore to 3 hospitals

CHANDIGARH: UT administrator VP Singh Badnore has directed three medical institutions — PGI, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32 and Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16 — to ramp up testing, enhance beds and take personal care of critical patients at a time when new coronavirus is raging across the city at a ferocious pace.
Badnore expressed concern about the rising number of cases during the review meeting on Wednesday.For early detection of symptomatic patients, help of councillors should be taken, he suggested, directing municipal commissioner to set up a control room. Any councillor can ring this number for information about the patients in their areas to facilitate their testing, quarantine, transportation to hospitals and admission. The civic body boss assured to make it functional by Thursday.
Badnore appealed to the public representatives to collect information about symptomatic and suspected cases in their areas and inform the health authorities, so that early detection and treatment would be feasible and fatalities could be reduced. PGI director Dr Jagat Ram said they have received 10 additional ventilators from the Centre. Similarly, Dr B S Chavan, director-principal, GMCH, said they have got additional 20 ventilators