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Dhanbad to add 175 new Covid beds this week: DC

Sindri: The Dhanbad district administration on Monday said it will soon add 175 beds for Covid-19 patients, taking the total number of such beds in the district to 500.

Deputy commissioner Uma Shankar Singh said the administration also plans to increase the beds at the Covid care centre of the Dhanbad sadar hospital to 120 from the existing 100.



He said, “The Covid care centre at the hospital is equipped with tele-conferencing facilities and doctors can advise the patients from their homes. The patients can also get information from the para-medical staff during a fixed time slot. This will go a long way in answering the concern of the Covid patients.”

The measure comes in the wake of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the district. As of Monday morning, Dhanbad has a total of 684 cases of which 469 are active and 14 people have died of the viral infection.

Singh said, “A 50-bed Covid care centre will start functioning at the BCCL regional hospital in Bhuli from Tuesday. The centre will also have a 100-bed isolation unit at the zonal training centre of railways at Bhuli and will be functional by August 5.”

The DC informed that a proposal for starting a Covid care centre at the Nirsa Polytechnic is also under consideration.

Meanwhile, employees of SBI Dhanbad branch and railways are in panic after reports of several of their colleagues getting infected. Nearly 40 staff of the SBI branch have tested positive last week. Similarly, nearly 40 railway employees have reportedly come in contact with Dhanbad DRM A K Mishra, who tested positive on Sunday.

The DRM office has started functioning from Monday after sanitization and ways are being devised to ensure that only a minimum number of employees are present at one place.

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