Control room set up to lodge complaints regarding Covid

Tribune News Service

Nawanshar, May 21

For any information or complaint regarding Covid-19, a control room has been set up where people can contact on the number 01823-227471. Deputy Commissioner Dr Shena Aggarwal said at the control room, family members or relatives of Covid patients admitted to hospitals can lodge a complaint regarding any kind of difficulty.

Help desks have been set up at private hospitals for the family members of the patients so that they could get accurate information about the condition of their kin. Various contact numbers of various private hospitals have been given. If a patient is admitted at Karan Hospital, the staff can be contacted on 8427458700, 9815953831 and 9996032407. In the same manner, 8427957988 is the contact number for Guru Nanak Mission Hospital, 9115900991 for Raja Hospital, Hope Hospital has 8699796936, Suri Hospital has 9803184007 and Navnur Hospital has help desk number 9878817166.

As per the information, a district-level committee has also been constituted under the chairmanship of Assistant Commissioner to monitor and resolve the grievances related to Covid. Apart from the senior police official representative, the committee also includes Secretary District Legal Services Authority, Civil Surgeon, District Development and Panchayat Officer and executive officers of Municipal Councils. He said this committee would be responsible for monitoring and resolving the grievances related to pandemic.

Instructions regarding black fungus

After the government notified mucormycosis (black fungus) disease under the Epidemic Act, Deputy Commissioner Dr Shena Aggarwal said the hospitals have been directed to change the saline/distilled water in the humidifier bottle attached to the oxygen cylinders every 12 hours in a sterilised manner and a register of complete record will be maintained by the duty doctor to prevent black fungus.

Similarly, in hospitals where oxygen concentrators are being used, they will be used from one patient to another only after they have been completely sterilised.