NOW, ADMISSION ALLOWED IN PVT HOSPS SANS NOD OF COVID CENTRE

The health department has now allowed private hospitals to admit Covid-19 patients and then inform the command centre.

In this connection, an order issued from the office of the district magistrate on Monday allowed 96 more private hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients in Lucknow, thereby adding 324oxygen supported and 38-ventilator supported beds for the patients.

Earlier, the admission was done only after approval from the Covid command centre. The order was circulated on Monday after names of 96 hospitals empanelled with the Ayushman Bharat scheme in the city were decided.

LUCKNOW: The health department has now allowed private hospitals to admit Covid-19 patients and then inform the command centre.

In this connection, an order issued from the office of the district magistrate on Monday allowed 96 more private hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients in Lucknow, thereby adding 324oxygen supported and 38-ventilator supported beds for the patients. Earlier, the admission was done only after approval from the Covid command centre.

The order was circulated on Monday after a high-level meeting held on Sunday decided the names of 96 hospitals empanelled with the Ayushman Bharat scheme in the city.

Earlier, on April 16, 17 private hospitals were given permission to treat Covid-19 patients.

“This will allow serious patients to get immediate admission and also the command centre will get the information via a centralised system/portal. The order is a big relief for patients in need of care at a medical centre,” said Sunil Yadav, general secretary of the Indian Pharmacist Association who had written to the director general medical health and raised admission issue at Covid hospitals.

Thus, the total number of hospitals in the city reached over 140 and total bed strength over 5,000.

More beds are being added at the KGMU and other medical facilities.