Karnataka hospitals told to be equipped by October for third wave


Bengaluru, Jul 15 (IANS): Hospitals across Karnataka have been told by the state government to be better equipped by October 15 to face Covid's third wave, expected to hit children badly.

The directive from the Health Department comes as the image of the ruling BJP was dented as people struggled to get beds across the state.

Steps have been taken to increase the number of beds, ensure oxygen supply and availability of ventilators at all major hospitals in Bengaluru as well as in district and taluka hospitals. The 16-member expert committee, headed by Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, had already submitted an interim report in this connection. It is said that the third wave of Covid -- feared to target children -- will surface between September and October.

A total of 35 ICU, 75 HDU, 10 NICU beds are there at the Indira Gandhi Children's hospital in Bengaluru, where 470 beds are available for treatment. The government facilitated the establishment of a 100 bed PICU facility by joining hands with Cognizant here, while 50 beds are reserved for children at Vani Vilas hospital.

Doctors are also being trained to treat children. The process of hiring medical staff is also being accelerated. Efforts are on by hospitals to hire a sufficient number of paediatricians.

 

  

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  • Dr Kusuma Kumari Gunji MBBS DGO, Nellore?kodyadka

    Fri, Jul 16 2021

    We have successfully defeated both COVID waves 1 and 2 with reasonable success We shall arm our people with vaccines and we shall defeat COVID wave 3 too. We shall take precautions We shall masks ourselves We shall use sanitiser and we shall maintain social distancing We shall vaccinate ourselves Together we shall defeat COVID We shall follow and cooperate with government orders Lets join together and beat the COVID

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Fri, Jul 16 2021

    Being prepared is the normal process for any hospitals and health services instead of useless lockdowns later. Now coming to third wave is nothing but keeping the fear intact to market vaccines to the second largest population kids which were never in danger in any respiratory infections. Time to end this pandemic hoax by stopping the tests of healthy people and never using the Fake RTPCR tests that never were invented to test for covid as it's manual and inventor specifically stated. As long as people believe paid media and self proclaimed experts in the payroll of vaccine industries this hoax will continue to squeeze as much profit as possible from gullible people with whose tax money our politicians are enjoying authoritarian powers by imposing pandemic act and all are unwilling to let go off their newfound wealth accumulation means at our expense.

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  • shekhar, udupi

    Fri, Jul 16 2021

    This proves that corona, it's passed waves and upcoming waves are so planned and plotted..

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  • John, Mangalore

    Thu, Jul 15 2021

    First wave communist chinese In bat modified corona virus, Second wave due to elites hurriedly brought out chimpanzee cell derived adeno virus based Big Pharma vaccines ?and Third wave Rodent borne diseases through hanta virus ? Children's Coughing Rat Plague ? Divine message had forewarned about this CRP long back specially in US. No to communist chinese trade ships. Might send here infected rats along with the big shipping containers. One never knows. Better clean up all Rats (or through dogs as recently prophecied by Indian Prophet Bajinder Singh.)These ruthless communist chinese go any extent to take total control, need be careful about them, may try to infect people one way or the other to bring deadly human and economy losses on other nations by trying keep them under continuous lockdowns. Modern world less believers, less prayers so these globalist and communist chinese trying royally to enslave humanity with viruses (micro biology) and nano technology, DNA changing (CRISPR technology) in vaccines making them controllable robots with AI, 5G and advanced surveilance technology with the use of their one way propaganda BigTech media. Same time their BigPharma raking billions in vaccines.

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  • Ajay Rebello, Kallianpur

    Thu, Jul 15 2021

    TOLD. Where will they get supplies and money.

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