Jharkhand: East Singhbhum administration seeks pvt doctors' help to tackle rising Covid-19 cases among health workers

JAMSHEDPUR: The rising number of Covid-19 cases among doctors and para-medical staff compelled the East Singhbhum district administration to request private practitioners to chip in to treat patients till the situation becomes better.


Deputy commissioner Suraj Kumar instructed the officials to prepare a list of private doctors in the Steel City and its adjoining areas for this purpose.

Kumar also wrote a letter to IMA asking for their help in this regard.

Kumar said, “Keeping in mind the rising Covid cases in the district and a high death rate (nearly 45%), it will be practically impossible to depend only on government doctors and para-medical staff.”

The DC also instructed private hospitals and nursing homes not to send back patients who come for treatment under any circumstances. “I have also asked the private hospitals to increase the Covid beds keeping in mind the spurt in cases,” Kumar said.

Sources said that on Friday, Covid beds at both Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) and Tata Main Hospital ran full. According to a hospital source, “There are 100 Covid beds at MGMMCH in which 131 patients are being treated at present.”

As more number of beds has been set up in the Covid ward, social distancing between two patients is also being compromised. However, the doctors at the hospital said there is no other way to adjust the rush.

Meanwhile, the ongoing stir of contractual medical staff at government hospitals has affected the testing in the district.

Sources said both rapid antigen detection tests and TrueNat tests have stopped after the contractual staff went on a protest.