Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore on Monday directed that each hospital must have a special cell for post-COVID-19 monitoring. During the review meeting on COVID-19 situation in the city, the Administrator directed that there should be an internal mortality audit, so that the fatality rate before and after COVID could be assessed.
Badnore asked the doctors to focus on patients under home quarantine, especially the vulnerable and those immuno-compromised, so that they are regularly monitored and can recover at the earliest.
He further asked that dedicated teams should visit COVID patients under home quarantine for regular screening and providing medicines and oxymetres. During the meeting, he requested all the medical institutions to keep preparations ready for COVID vaccination.
The Administrator also appealed to the private hospitals to provide details of their doctors and medical staff to the Administration, so that these medical workers could be given priority during COVID vaccination, as per the norms fixed by Central Government.
The Administrator said that he is glad to find that no surge of COVID cases has taken place during the festive season in the city. He appealed to residents to continue to follow COVID protocol like mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing.
It was informed during the meeting that the Administration has challaned 32,000 persons for violation of COVID norms such as non-wearing of masks, social distancing etc. It was further informed that the ban on hookah bars has been extended by another 60 days.
Dr Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER said that they have 109 COVID patients in Nehru Hospital Extension, out of which 43 belonged to Punjab, 30 belonged to Chandigarh, 11 to Haryana, 19 to Himachal Pradesh and six to other states.
Dr Jagat Ram further said that the positivity rate is gradually coming down.
The Governor was apprised that a post-COVID care Centre has been made functional at GMCH-32 from December 12, which caters to the medical needs of COVID patients, who have recovered from the disease.
Chd reports one death, 76 fresh COVID cases
Chandigarh: The union territory of Chandigarh on Monday reported 76 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the infection count to 18,714, while one more fatality pushed the death toll to 302. According to the Chandigarh Health Department’s bulletin, there were 714 active cases in the city. A total of 127 patients were discharged from hospitals in the past 24 hours after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 17698 in the union territory.
As many as 161810 samples have been taken for testing so far and of them, 142236 tested negative. 1210 samples were tested in the last 24 hours and a report of 117 was awaited, the bulletin added.