Gearing up
The way covid-19 is increasing its challenge with every passing day we need to understand that getting ready to deal with the situation is the only answer to fight the disease and its impact.
Right now covid-19 has thrown up a serious challenge in the form of ‘black, white and even yellow’ fungus which is creating a scare and making us realize that how cautious we need to tread to deal with the sticky situation.
We need to understand that improving and augmenting the healthcare infrastructure is the only option to avoid a catastrophe as our healthcare infrastructure has so far managed to barricade the spread of the disease and its off shoots.
From arranging for various new covid facilities to enhancing medical oxygen supplies besides other drugs, the administration needs to think on various modules which at this point of time need to be out of the box solutions so that some results are achieved.
In this regard a timely decision to increase oxygen beds in Kashmir division to ensure immediate treatment for the people requiring hospitalization can be seen as one of the steps that need to be ensured during the coming days.
Making the availability of these covid beds should be the beginning as many more such decisions need to be announced in the coming days so that the emerging situation can be tackled well in time.
Preparing covid beds is no easy task. One needs to have all the facilities available that any patient put up at these facilities is in need of. This includes medical oxygen supplies, availability of water, washrooms and other facilities including the all important medical care.
Creating all these facilities needs time and effort and since we are already running late on creating of such facilities we may have to put in extra efforts to see such facilities are created in actual.
Since experts are predicting the peak of the second wave we still have some time left to organize ourselves and provide some answer to the increased demands of beds and other essentials. This breathetr that we may get during the coming weeks needs to be fully utilized to gear up and face the off shoots of the virus as is evident from various fungal infections that are being reported.
The authorities also need to emphasize on taking comprehensive measures for better patient care management and ensure triaging and judicious referrals from districts as the district level health facilities too have been added to the covid hospitals list which means that the infrastructure in the districts should also be put to optimum use.
However, the authorities also need to stress on the fact that medical care facilities are also equally important and for this the staff that needs to run the show has to be arranged. Our healthcare workers have been already on tenterhooks and it is more than a year now that they have been going on and on despite all odds.
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