Various units of Coal India in eight States of the Country including Jharkhand and West Bengal have installed 1,509 quarantine beds to defeat the coronavirus infection.
Out of total 1,509 beds, the maximum of 664 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has been set up at its hospitals in Bhubaneswar, Angul, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh in Odisha. Apart from this, Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) has installed 200 separate beds in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) 100, Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) 180, Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) 144, South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) 132, Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) 75 and North Eastern Coalfields Ltd (NECL) has installed 14 beds.
The hospitals of Ranchi-based Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) have been asked to take special vigil in view of Kovid-19. Hospital management has been asked to take special vigilance in OPD. It has been said that separate arrangements should be made for patients with symptoms of cold-cough and flu. Its sole purpose is that even if a patient carrying corona virus arrives in the hospital, its infection does not spread to other patients.
The Government of India announced a lockdown across the country in time. Therefore, the bacteria of this disease could not spread here so fast compared to other nations, such as China, America and Italy. Till now only three cases of Corona virus posetive has been detected in Jharkhand.
