{"id":81912,"date":"2020-08-06T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81912"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T12:21:27","slug":"mohali-administration-puts-covid-spike-management-plan-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mohali-administration-puts-covid-spike-management-plan-into-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohali Administration puts \u2018COVID Spike Management Plan\u2019 into action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Covid Care Centre at Gharuan operationalized<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Antigen testing commenced<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Second TrueNat machine installed<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Private hospitals told to increase isolation beds<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dedicated call centre to be operationalized for home isolation patients<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Regular Medical follow up through video calls<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>SAS Nagar, August&nbsp;6:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan said that with the continuous surge in COVID-19\u00a0cases in the district, Mohali Administration has put \u2018COVID Spike Management Plan\u2019 into action.  He was reviewing the status of pandemic spread, with the officials of health department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dayalan said \u201cLearning from the worldwide pandemic spread, we expected the cases to surge at any given point of time. So, we prepared our COVID spike management plan well in time and have now put it into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that besides Gyan Sagar Hospital, the Covid Care Centre(CCC) at Chandigarh University Gharuan has been operationalized with\u00a0200\u00a0hundred dedicated beds for asymptomatic patients. We have arrangement of another\u00a0800\u00a0beds which can be pressed into use, if need be. Another CCC would be set up in Derabassi. Private hospitals have also been put on guard and told to reserve more beds for isolation cases. The special facility has been created in District Hospital to accommodate and handle deliveries of COVID positive expectant mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides infrastructure, testing capacity has been upgraded. Antigen testing has been commenced by virtue of which test results are available within half an hour. \u201cWe target to do at least a hundred tests a day on the contacts of positive patients so that we can check the further exponential growth in cases from those contacts\u201d, said DC. The second TrueNat machine for testing has been installed at Dera Bassi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to provide quick medical consultancy to patients opting for home isolation, a dedicated call center is soon to be operationalized. The doctors from the center would be in touch with the patients, daily and vice versa patients can call to consult if any inconvenience or deterioration in health is experienced. Video calling facility would also be extended to patients if need be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides, Aashika Jain ADC(G) and&nbsp; Rajiv Gupta ADC(D), the meeting was attended by Himanshu Jain, Kuldeep Bawa, Jagdeep Sehgal(all SDMs), Manjit Singh Civil Surgeon and other officials from district Health Department.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid Care Centre at Gharuan operationalized Antigen testing commenced Second TrueNat machine installed Private hospitals told to increase isolation beds Dedicated call centre to be operationalized for home isolation patients Regular Medical follow up through video calls SAS Nagar, August&nbsp;6: Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan said that with the continuous surge in COVID-19\u00a0cases in the district, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81915,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912\/revisions\/81915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}