Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has written to Union Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi seeking his intervention for operation of he MCL’s hospital at Talcher as a Covid Hospital with urgent provisioning of 100 ventilators.
Pradhan said that due to the explosive resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Angul district, it is necessary to grant emergency permission for supplementing Covid-19 care at the MCL’s Nehru Satabdi Central Hospital (NSCH) at Talcher with 100 ventilators.
The NSCH Talcher was functioning as a Covid Hospital with 144 beds and six ICU units during the first wave of the pandemic, Pradhan mentioned in the letter. “Keeping in mind the exponential rise in number of Covid-19 cases in Angul and limited number of Covid-19 treatment facilities in the region, it is essential to operationalise and supplement critical medical infrastructure in the region.
I, therefore, seek your personal intervention in declaring NSCH as Covid Hospital with ICU facilities and also issue necessary permission to officials concerned for making urgent arrangements of 100 ventilators at the hospital,” the letter stated.