A 100-bed capacity COVID Hospital with a 10-bed ICU and ventilator support facilities was made operational with the support of SUM Hospital in Kendrapada district on Tuesday.
ECG and X-rays facilities were also available in the COVID hospital set up at the Chatta-based Government Polytechnic, informed Kendrapada Collector Samarth Verma.
As many as four doctors, 15 nurses and five technical staffs have been engaged in the hospital, added Verma. While the SUM Hospital authorities will work as health operator, the district administration has taken the task of providing sanitation and security. The Mahanadi Coalfields Limited has provided funds for the hospital.
A MoU was signed on Monday between the Kendrapara Collector and SUM Hospital Superintendent Dr Pusparaj Samantasinhar for the hospital.
Similarly, a 200-bed COVID hospital was launched at the KISS campus in Balangir by district Collector Arindum Dakua on Tuesday. The hospital is being managed by KIMS.
A three-tier treatment facility has been arranged in the district. The patients having mild symptoms would be treated at the Corona Care Centre at the primary level and with moderate level symptoms; the patient would be treated at the COVID Health Centre.
And those having serious and positive symptoms would be treated at this COVID Hospital which has all the facilities for virus infected patients, informed Dakua.
Presently, the hospital is functioning with 100 beds but it would be expanded later.
A total of 280 swabs samples were collected from the district and sent to the Regional Research Medical Centre in Bhubaneswar for tests and all the 90 reports, which have come so far have tested negative.