Nabarangpur MP Ramesh Chandra Majhi in a letter to the State Government urged to make the Covid Hospital at Umarkotefunctional to tackle the steep rise of Covid cases in the locality.
Speaking to the mediapersons, Majhi said once the hospital becomesfunctional, it will cater to needs of patients from the locality aswell as from adjacent three blocks of the district borderingChhattisgarh where Covid cases are rising at a much faster rate.
Finding no way left the patients from Chandahandi, Raighar andJharigam are shifted to the District Headquarters Covid Hospital toavail treatment which is fraught with risks especially for criticalcases, said Majhi.
Meanwhile, DMIT Chairman Choudhury Vijay Ketan Mohanty and Health Director Dr Bijay Kumar Mahapatra visited Nabarangpur district on Friday over upgrading the district Covid Hospital facilities. During the visit they inspected the Covid hospital infrastructure to increasethe number of beds in view of the rapid infection in the district.
While there is no ICU facility at the Covid Hospital, 10 to 12 ICUshave now been sanctioned and work is expected to be completed withina week, Health Director Mahapatra said.
Besides, he said further thatmultiple ventilators service will be provided to the Covid Hospitalwithin a couple of days. Contacted, Nabarangpur Collector Ajit Kumar Mishra said the StateGovernment has appointed three Assistant Professors at the districtCovid Hospital from the Koraput Medical College.
In view of theseriousness of the situation, the State Government has provided twoambulances fitted with life saving equipment at a cost of 70 lakh eachto the district.
The ambulances will be stationed one each at Umerkoteand Nabrangpur. Apart from this, six such high-valued ambulances will come to the district within a week, the Collector informed further.