No staff at Faridabad Covid-care facility

Bijendra Ahlawat

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, December 10

A new 96-bed Prefab Covid Care Facility (hospital), set up by the Health Department on the premises of the Civil Hospital here to deal with the Covid challenge, is yet to be sanctioned the medical staff.

Appointments soon

The new hospital has already been made functional with the shifting of some patients here. The required staff is likely to be appointed shortly. Dr Savita Yadav, Principal Medical Officer, Civil Hospital

This container-based hospital facility has been set up under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) project taken up during the second wave of the Covid earlier this year. It requires at least 30 doctors and 40 nurses, according to sources in the Health Department here, who add that the hospital would be able to function properly only after it gets the required staff.

The list of the staff requisitioned for it includes 20 general duty medical officers, 10 specialist doctors, 40 nursing officers (nurses), eight pharmacists and radiographers, 16 technical officers, four ECG technicians, 36 general duty assistants and an equal number of housekeeping staff, besides a dietitian, gas plant operator, physiotherapists and support staff, including electrician, plumber and security staff.

Spread over 1800 sq m area on the Civil Hospital premises, its construction work was taken up in May. With a total of 96 beds, 72 and 24 are beds meant for male and female patients, respectively. Equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities and amenities, including sewage, water, power backup and oxygen, it is able to take care of all types of patients, including Covid ones,’’ said a senior official of the Health Department. Of the total amount of Rs 6 crore spent on it, Rs 4 crore has been funded by a foreign company. This is the first hospital equipped with the production and supply of 1000 litres of oxygen gas per minute.

Meanwhile, facing a similar crisis the casualty wing of the 200-bedded Civil Hospital here has only two doctors to attend tO patients against the required six doctors, it is learnt. With no specialist in general medicine, it has only 44 medical officers against the sanctioned strength of 54.

Claiming that the new hospital has already been made functional with the shifting of some of the patients here, Dr Savita Yadav, principal medical officer of the Civil Hospital, said the required staff was likely to be appointed shortly.