The Union health ministry has notified the authorities of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry to provide isolation wards alongside good beds facility for suspected COVID-19 patients.
AIIMS Delhi has even worked on the directions of the centre as its Jai Prakash Trauma Centre will be utilised as the new emergency wing of the Trauma Centre by placing 20 isolation beds for suspected COVID19 patients.
These coronavirus specific wards will also have a gate that has been specifically designed to receive patients from the ambulance.
If the test results conclude positive, the patient would then be shifted to the National Cancer Institute, Jajjhar for the further treatment, officials said.
The health ministry to maintain the frequency between AIIMS and NCI Jajjhar separate isolation beds alongside capacity from the existing 25 to 125 beds will be placed.
13 isolation beds will be placed at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry and six other AIIMS have been directed to expand their isolation bed capacity between 12-15 for coronavirus patients, which can be increased up to 30 beds if the need comes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi even directed senior officials on a high-level meeting from the central government to identify sufficient locations for quarantine facilities for coronavirus patients. The meeting was attended by the union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. India now has 40 confirmed coronavirus cases. Globally there have been over 3200 deaths due to the deadly virus.
