Bihar govt plans online bed management for Covid-19 patients

PATNA: The state health department is working for online bed management to provide better health facilities to the Covid-19 patients in state. The department targets to provide four ventilators and one dedicated ICU for Covid-19 patients in all the 38 districts, IPRD and health secretaries said in their press briefing on Wednesday. The health department has also the target to start conducting 20,000 tests for Covid-19 per day within two days.
IPRD secretary Anupam Kumar said additional beds were being regularly added in all Covid care centres (CCC), dedicated Covid health centres (DCHC) and dedicated Covid hospitals (DCHs) in the state.“Now the health department is targeting to have additional beds equipped with oxygen. Also, a dedicated team has been deployed to look after the management of ten dedicated hospitals,” Anupam said.
He further said Covid-19 testing was being done in all the blocks and now the government would increase the number of tests through RT-PCR.
Health secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh said the department was stressing on improving medical facilities at district level and was arranging oxygen, ventilator and ICU there so that not many people need to be referred to higher medical institutes for treatment.
He said there were ten hospitals, including AIIMS-Patna, where Covid-19 patients in serious conditions were being treated. Singh said Covid-19 patients were treated at 394 health centres with a total of 44,000 beds across the state. He said 26,000 beds have been put up at these centres and 12,000 oxygen cylinders were available there. “Apart from cylinders, 2500 beds had the facility of oxygen pipeline besides 270 ICU beds and 383 ventilators were functional,” said Singh.
Giving the break-up of the availability of beds, he said there were 290 Covid care centre with 19,000 beds and the number of beds will be increased to 30,000 in state. “There are 4,202 oxygen cylinders in these CCCs and oxygen pipelines have been arranged at 43 places,” stated Singh.
Apart from the CCCs, there are 94 DCHCs with 6342-bed capacity, out of which 5,000 beds have been put up. There are 2,925 oxygen cylinders in these DCHCs and oxygen pipeline arrangement has been made at 500 places. The ten dedicated Covid hospitals have the 3850-bed capacity, out of which 3,000 have been put up. There are 4,542 oxygen cylinders in these hospitals and 1855 beds are equipped with oxygen pipelines, he said.