Third wave: Separate ICU facilities for Covid paediatric patients at RUHS in Jaipur – ET HealthWorld

Jaipur: Amid apprehensions that children will be more susceptible to Covid infection in the third wave, a network of government hospitals has been planned in the city to ensure proper treatment to paediatric Covid patients.

At the dedicated Covid RUHS hospital, a separate ICU for paediatric patients is coming up where doctors of JK Lon hospital will be deployed. “Children require different kind of facilities for treatment and for that purpose we are developing a separate ICU for paediatric Covid patients and some general beds in the hospital will also remain reserved for the children. We are getting ready to deal with the third wave of Covid. Since we have less than 100 Covid patients currently in our hospital, we have started repairing equipment, recruitment of staff and are expanding our ICU facilities by adding 100 more beds,” said Dr Ajit Singh, superintendent, RUHS hospital.

Besides, out of 800 beds, child-specialty government-run JK Lon hospital will dedicate its 600 beds for Covid paediatric patients. “We have reserved 200 beds for super specialities such as paediatric cardiology, paediatric nephrology and also for paediatric surgery. Since such facilities are not available in other children’s hospitals, we have decided not to shift such patients and reserved 200 beds,” said Dr Arvind Shukla, superintendent, JK Lon hospital.

He said that they will shift other non-Covid patients to government-run Gangauri hospital and Satellite hospital at Sethi Colony.

“We will have additional beds in RUHS hospitals for Covid patients, and will shift non-Covid patients to Satellite hospital and Gangauri hospital,” said Dr Shukla, adding that they have 600 beds and out of those 300 are ICU beds, rest 300 will be converted into ICU beds, as the state government is providing more equipment to the hospital.

“We have centralised oxygen supply to each bed and when required, will convert them into ICU beds in minutes,” said Dr Shukla.

Sethi Colony’s Satellite Hospital has also strengthened its facilities to ensure that if non-Covid patients are shifted from JK Lon hospital, they will face no difficulty in accommodating them.