Youth for Swaraj seek info on hospital beds, medicines for Covid patients

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 30

The Chandigarh unit of the Youth for Swaraj today called for creating an online portal which has correct information about the availability of beds in government and private hospitals, along with contact numbers of authorised stockists of crucial drugs and medicines, for the convenience of the city residents.

Youth for Swaraj runs a Covid helpline – 9429425810 – for Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali.

“Many times the listed hospital number is either busy or no one responds the call. The administration should thus make available more than one working number of all hospitals so that patients do not face any problem in times of emergency,” said Ankur Goyat from Youth for Swaraj.

The organisation also said the administration should set up makeshift hospitals with adequate number of oxygen and ventilator beds, so that the city is well equipped to face the surge which is estimated to peek in May.

Goyat said, “Apart from this, it has been seen that plasma therapy is very effective in treatment of Covid. As such, the Chandigarh Administration should maintain the data of plasma donors or corona recovered people and actively encourage them to donate plasma.”