Govt prepares to ramp up testing and streamline process for allocation of beds to covid patients
Bengaluru : Medical Education Minister Dr.K.Sudhakar held a meeting with senior officials on Thursday to review the covid situation in the state. Work is in progress to streamline the process of allocating beds to covid patients and new set of guidelines should be ready for release by tomororow, Minister said.
Private hospitals have also agreed to reserve beds for treatment of covid patients. Keeping this in mind and considering the suggestions provided by experts all necessary preparations are being made to ensure smooth roll out of new plan in coming days. The suggestion regarding Home isolation of asymptomatic cases was also discussed in the meeting and necessary steps will be taken in this regard, Minister said.
Dr.Sudhakar inaugurated the Covid testing lab established at Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences through video conference. GIMS has made the entire state proud by becoming the first medical college to obtain approval from Medical Council of India to start PG courses within 5 years of establishment of the college, Minister appreciated the college.
The government is steadily increasing the testing capacity since past 3-4 months and today we have 79 covid testing labs functioning across the state which includes 44 government and 35 private labs. We now have the the capacity to conduct 15,000 samples per day and about 6 lakh samples have been tested in the state so far. The government has also conducted survey of about 1.5 households to detect asympomatic and identify vulnerable perosns, Minister said.
Gadag district in-charge minister C.C. Patil, former minister H.K.Patil, MPs P.C.Gaddigowdar, Shivakumar Udasi, MLAs, MLCs and other dignitaries participated in the GIMS event through online.
