Covid caseload up, govt puts off elective surgeries: Punjab

 

In wake of the flood in Covid cases, the Health Department has suspended every single elective medical procedure in government emergency clinics for the following 15 days.

In a correspondence sent to every single common specialist, the Director, Health Services, has requested that they defer every elective medical procedure.

“All of you realize that an upsurge in instances of Covid-19 is being seen in the state. The expanded number of cases will require the administrations of more human services staff,” it said.

Keeping this in see, the correspondence stated, “You are mentioned to defer the elective medical procedures in all administration social insurance offices in your locale for the following 15 days with the goal that the human services staff can be made accessible for Covid-19 obligations.”

Notwithstanding, it must be guaranteed that crisis administrations, mother and childcare and injury administrations are given without interference, it included.

Fundamentally, the quantity of cases has seen an unexpected spike in the previous three weeks. Over the most recent fourteen days, around 200 passings and 8,000 cases were accounted for. Four locale — Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Patiala — have announced around 55 percent of the all out cases.

In the interim, the state announced 488 new cases and 20 passings over the most recent 24 hours. The check of Covid-19 has arrived at 19,015. By and by, Ludhiana bested as far as casualities with seven passings. Five passings each were accounted for from Patiala and Jalandhar, one each from Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur and Gurdaspur.