Now, Mohali Civil Hospital a dedicated facility for Covid patients

Sanjay Bumbroo
Tribune News Service
Mohali, April 26

In view of a surge in the number of Covid patients requiring medical oxygen, the district health authorities have shifted the OPD and emergency services from the Phase 6 Civil Hospital to ESI Hospital in Mohali.

The Civil Hospital will now be dedicated to Covid patients and the L2 bed capacity will be increased from 60 to 100.

Dr Manjit Kaur, SMO, ESI Hospital, Industrial Area, Phase 7, said they had received orders from the higher authorities in this regard on Sunday evening. She said they had sought services of four specialists — an ENT doctor, a psychiatrist, a skin specialist and a physician. She said the specialist doctors joined their duty today.

Dr HS Cheema, SMO, Civil Hospital, said Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu had ordered shifting of the OPD and emergency services in the hospital to ESI Hospital through video-conferencing last evening. He said the step had been taken to save thousands of patients visiting the hospital daily for getting treatment for various ailments from getting infected with the virus.

Dr Cheema said now, the hospital would cater to Covid patients requiring medical oxygen and added that L2 beds would be provided to patients. He said those requiring L3 care would be shifted to Rajindra Hospital in Patiala. He said there was a provision for eight ventilators, but they needed staff and other infrastructure for putting them to use.

The SMO said emergency services would be provided to those who visit the hospital and the system would be streamlined in a day or two. He said 100 L2 beds were also being set up at Gharuan to supply medical oxygen to Covid patients and a meeting in this regard was held with Deputy Commission Girish Dayalan recently.