Covid-19: Mock drill across states, UTs to ensure readiness of health facilities

A mock drill will be held across a number of health facilities in several states and Union territories to ensure their readiness to deal with any eventuality related to Covid19 following an advisory by the CentreThe exercise will focus on parameters such as availability of health facilities covering all districts capacity of isolation beds oxygensupported beds ICU beds and ventilatorsupported beds and optimal availability of doctors nurses paramedics AYUSH doctors and other frontline workers including ASHA and Anganwadi workersIt will also focus on human resource capacity in terms of healthcare professionals trained on Covid19 management healthcare professionals trained in ventilatory management protocol for severe cases healthcare workers trained in operation of PSA plants etc and availability of Advanced and Basic Life Support ALSBLS ambulances testing equipment and reagents and that of essential drugs among othersReferring to the surge in Covid19 trajectory in many countries around the world the Union Health Ministry on Saturday underlined that it was necessary that in all states and UTs requisite public health measures are put in place to meet any exigenciesPreparedness of Covid19 health facilities is crucial to ensure that states and districts are in a state of readiness to meet increase in clinical care needs due to any spurt in cases Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan had said in a letterAlso Read Avoid overcrowding ensure wearing of masks in crowded places Centre to statesThe objective of this exercise is to ensure operational readiness of these health facilities for management of Covid19 he saidBhushan further said followup on any gap assessment shall be required to be undertaken by the additional chief secretary principal secretary secretary health and or MDNHM of states who will also be required to monitor the exercise personally under the overall guidance of the health minister of respective statesThe Uttar Pradesh government on Monday activated the administrative machinery to test Covid preparedness and management including conduct of mock drills at medical colleges and hospitals across the state after two fresh cases were reported from Unnao and AgraDelhi government officials on Monday began physically visiting all government hospitals in the city to ascertain their preparedness to deal with any eventuality in view of the surge in Covid cases in some countries the authorities saidWe have started physically visiting all government hospitals An inventory of beds liquid medical oxygen ventilators and other equipment is being prepared It will be ready by Monday evening East Delhi District Magistrate Anil Banka saidA mock drill will be conducted across all city government hospitals on Tuesday following the Centres directionsIndia saw a singleday rise of 196 new coronavirus infections while the active cases have marginally increased to 3428 according to Union Health Ministry data updated on MondayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever