With the spike in Covid 19 cases in the last few days, the district administration has started preparations to tackle the epidemic. The Ranchi District administration has asked private hospital authorities to increase bed facilities for Covid 19 patients in their hospital.
The Ranchi district administration in this connection on Monday held a meeting with private hospital authorities. The meeting was headed by Ranchi deputy commissioner Chhavi Ranjan, Deputy Development Commissioner Ananya Mittal and other officials. Representatives from Orchid Medical Centre, Raj Hospitals and Guru Nanak Hospital & Research Centre attended the meet.
The representatives from Raj Hospital informed the district administration that presently they have reserved 20-25 beds for corona patients, Orchid Medical Centre has reserved 15 beds, while 14 beds are reserved at Guru Nanak Hospital & Research Centre for Covid patients.
The DC directed the hospital authorities to increase bed facilities for Covid patients, to which the hospital authorities agreed. In the meeting, DDC Ananya Mittal said that private hospitals should discharge their responsibility during the corona period and should not be negligent in the treatment of any patients.
During the meeting, Ranjan said that the district administration is in the process of arranging the treatment of asymptomatic patients in hotels in the coming days, in which private hospitals will provide health facilities. He directed the operators / representatives of private hospitals to decide the framework related to it. He said that for this, the hotel operators should work together to fix a reasonable rate. He said that private hospitals will prepare routine charts of doctors and health workers for asymptomatic patients in these hotels.
Meanwhile, the DC inspected the Ranchi Collectorate Building. Along with other officials he visited various cells of the DC office and gave necessary directives to the officers and staff. The DC asked the officers / personnel to fully follow the guidelines for prevention of corona infection during work. Norms such as social distancing should be followed in the office too, also use masks and sanitizers should be mandatory.
In view of the corona infection, the Deputy Commissioner directed to seriously conduct thermal screening of people visiting the collectorate at the entry gate. He also directed to take special care of cleanliness in the collectorate premises.
The DC also asked officials and staff to cooperate with people coming to the DC office for their work. He directed officials to put the information on board about the offices operated in the Collectorate building at the entry gate with room numbers so that people don’t have to go here and there.