Steps being taken to face third COVID-19 wave, says TN Health Minister
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During the previous month-and-a-half, 79,618 beds have been made accessible as elements of efforts being taken to face the third COVID-19 wave, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian stated within the House on Tuesday
The Tamil Nadu authorities on Tuesday stated within the State Legislative Assembly that it was taking all steps essential to enhance medical infrastructure, even because it hoped that the third COVID-19 wave could not hit the State. Tamil Nadu wanted about 10 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines to cowl all eligible residents.
During the previous month-and-a-half, 79,618 beds have been made accessible as elements of efforts being taken to face the third COVID-19 wave, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian stated within the House. “We only hope that there is no third COVID wave but we are taking every step possible to face it, should it come,” he stated and recalled the current establishing of a particular ward within the youngsters’s hospital in Egmore.
As for the vaccination drive, he stated the State was receiving vaccine doses “to some extent” and the variety of these selecting to vaccinate themselves has gone up. On June 21, about 3.96 lakh individuals took vaccine photographs. A complete of two,510 circumstances of mucormycosis had been reported within the State and of them, 130 had been discharged after being given remedy, he stated.
When the DMK authorities was sworn-in on May 7, the variety of COVID-19 circumstances stood at 26,265 a day and it went up to 36,157 on May 21. But, it will definitely dropped to over 7,400 on June 21, Mr. Subramanian identified and hoped that it could additional go down within the subsequent few days.
Listing out the steps being taken by the federal government in containing the unfold of COVID-19, the Minister recalled Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s go to to the ICU of a hospital in Coimbatore to increase the boldness of well being staff combating the pandemic. Mr. Subramanian was replying to AIADMK legislator C. Vijayabaskar (Viralimalai), who raised the difficulty within the House.
Mr. Vijayabaskar, a former Health Minister, contended that the State authorities ought to maintain prepared not less than 1 lakh beds anticipating the admission of kid sufferers throughout the third COVID-19 wave, as they haven’t been vaccinated [there is no COVID-19 vaccine for children]. He additionally needed moms to be vaccinated on precedence, as they’re anticipated to accompany their youngsters ought to the latter be contaminated throughout the third COVID-19 wave. Additional beds needs to be put in in particular wards for youngsters throughout the anticipated wave, he insisted.
The vaccination drive also needs to be improved throughout the State, and steps also needs to taken to take away vaccine hesitancy that was prevalent even among the many educated, he stated. He additionally warned that this was the time one wanted to watch out, although relaxations had been introduced from the COVID-19 lockdown.
The authorities ought to categorise hospitals into three – non-COVID, COVID specials and people for post-COVID problems, Mr. Vijayabaskar stated and identified that there have been extra sufferers with post-COVID problems than these with COVID-19. He needed devoted post-COVID-19 care T district-level hospitals.
He additionally sought to know whether or not the medical admissions this yr could be by way of NEET or not. Mr. Vijayabaskar requested what was the DMK authorities’s stand on 7.5% reservation to college students from authorities colleges in medical admissions.
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