17 pvt hospitals to offer Covid treatment in Lucknow

  • | Saturday | 17th April, 2021

Lucknow: Adding more Covid-19 hospitals in Lucknow late on Friday evening, the district administration released names of 17 private hospitals listed under Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, which will provide Covid care to infected patients. According to district magistrate Abhishek Prakash, the district administration and health department will coordinate in arranging PPET kits, oxygen, remdesiver and other medicines in all 17 private hospitals. Apart from this, the information of all patients admitted here will be available in the Integrated Command and Control Centre established in Lucknow.

Lucknow: Adding more Covid-19 hospitals in Lucknow late on Friday evening, the district administration released names of 17 private hospitals listed under Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, which will provide Covid care to infected patients. According to district magistrate Abhishek Prakash, the district administration and health department will coordinate in arranging PPET kits, oxygen, remdesiver and other medicines in all 17 private hospitals. Apart from this, the information of all patients admitted here will be available in the Integrated Command and Control Centre established in Lucknow.
 
These private hospitals have a total of 405 beds. There are 45 beds of ventilators and 360 beds of oxygen. The private hospitals will act as the first point of contact for treatment of covid-19 infected patients.
 

The DM further instructed that all non-Covid private hospitals will create a triage/holding area and 10% of the total bed capacity will be reserved for the same. Arrangement of oxygen, ventilator will also be made by the hospital in the triage area.  He said, “If any patient who has not been tested for Covid or is awaiting report comes to such hospital, then the patient should be given proper treatment by the hospital following the entire Covid protocol at non-Covid hospital.” 

He reminded that all non-Covid hospitals/nursing homes will have to maintain at least one dedicated Covid ambulance and use it for the transportation of Covid patients if required.  The DM added that all those private laboratories and hospitals which meet the required standards and want to serve as a Covid laboratory and hospital, can come forward and provide their services. 


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