Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 24
Aimed at improving the healthcare delivery system, UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore has directed Arun Gupta, Principal Secretary (Health), to devise a method so that a committee of doctors can screen all Covid cases and decide the allotment of beds in a centralised way in all three government medical institutions -- the PGI, the GMCH, Sector 32, and the GMSH, Sector 16.
"This will help patients running from one hospital to another in search of beds," said Badnore during a review meeting on the Covid-19 pandemic here today.
During the meeting, Dr Jagat Ram, Director, PGI, said two dedicated dialysis machines had been kept apart for Covid patients.
Dr BS Chavan, Director-Principal, GMCH, said they had conducted 686 tests, of which 423 samples were of RT-PCR and 263 samples of Antigen. The average positivity rate was around 21 per cent, he added.
Dr G Dewan, Director, Health Services, said there was an improvement in the city as only 9 per cent positivity was found in the samples tested by them.
The doctors informed the Administrator that 2,000 persons were in home quarantine in Chandigarh and were being regularly monitored through a control room.
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