BHUBANESWAR: Given the very real threat of the spread of Omicron, the capital city administration on Sunday designated a 100-bed guesthouse as an isolation facility for those infected with the Covid variant. It has also asked existing Covid hospitals to increase bed strength.
The authorities of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) have also asked SCB Medical College and Hospital and Aswini Hospital to increase bed strength and sensitise officials to ensure home isolation of Covid patients infected with Omicron. Cuttack, so far, hasn’t created an Omicron isolation facility.
“We have readied a 100-bed isolation facility for those who get infected with Omicron variant of Covid virus. It is an isolation facility and not a hospital. This is meant to segregate only patients with Omicron. Besides, the bed strength in designated Covid hospitals will be increased from 300 to 350 to start with. The hospitals have been asked to keep ready all necessary infrastructure and medicines to counter the effect of the virus,” said Sanjay Kumar Singh, commissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The capital city is still grappling with daily Covid cases with infection between 50 and 100 being reported daily.
The early and swift preparations indicate the administration wants to provide the best healthcare facility to its residents and those from other districts.
The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has asked the hospitals to increase bed strength from existing 250 (200 in SCB and 50 in Aswini Hospital) to 300 in view of an apprehension of a possible Omicron spread.
“The principle is same for all cases. Patients with mild symptoms will be asked to stay in home isolation and they will be under surveillance. Moderate and sever cases will require hospital care. We are sending positive samples for genome sequencing every day to the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) laboratory,” said CMC commissioner Ananya Das.
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