New Delhi: The Union cupboard Thursday authorised a Rs 23,123-crore package deal for enhancing well being infrastructure to combat COVID-19 as a part of which round 2.4 lakh medical beds and 20,000 ICU ones could be created with a particular deal with paediatric care.
Addressing a press convention in teh nationwide capital after the primary assembly of the Union cupboard following its reshuffle on Wednesday, Well being Minister Mansukh Mandaviya mentioned the package deal shall be applied over the subsequent 9 months until March 2022.
The assembly was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mandaviya mentioned that is the second section of the Emergency Response and Well being System Preparedness Bundle because the Central authorities had given Rs 15,000 crore earlier for establishing Covid-dedicated hospitals and well being centres throughout the nation.
Underneath the brand new package deal, the Centre would supply Rs 15,000 crore and states Rs 8,123 crore, and the plan could be applied collectively by them throughout all of the 736 districts to enhance medical infrastructure at major and district well being centres.
Round 2.4 lakh regular medical beds and 20,000 ICU beds could be created of which 20 p.c could be specifically earmarked for kids, he mentioned. The minister mentioned storage amenities for oxygen and medicines would even be created at district stage underneath the plan.
An official assertion mentioned states and UTs could be supported to create paediatric items in all 736 districts and to determine Paediatric Centre of Excellence in every state and UT (both in medical faculties, state authorities hospitals or central hospitals resembling AIIMS, INIs, and many others) for offering tele-ICU companies, mentoring and technical hand-holding to the district paediatric items.
They’d be supported to enhance 20,000 ICU beds in public healthcare system out of which 20 per cent shall be pediatric ICU beds, it mentioned.
The Section-II of the package deal has central sector (CS) and centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) parts.
The assertion mentioned that underneath the central sector parts, assist could be supplied to central hospitals, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, and different Establishments of Nationwide Significance underneath DoHFW for repurposing 6,688 beds for COVID-19 administration.
Nationwide Centre for Illness Management (NCDC) could be strengthened by offering genome sequencing machines, apart from sanctioning scientific management room, epidemic intelligence companies (EIS) and different assist, it mentioned.
Help could be supplied for the implementation of Hospital Administration Data System (HMIS) in all of the district hospitals of the nation (presently, it’s applied solely in 310 DHs), the assertion mentioned.
All district hospitals would implement HMIS via NIC-developed e-Hospital and CDAC developed E-Shushrutsoftwares. This would be the greatest impetus for implementation of the Nationwide Digital Well being Mission (NDHM) on the DHs, the assertion mentioned.
Help would even be supplied for increasing the nationwide structure of eSanjeevani tele-consultation platform to supply upto 5 lakhs tele-consultations per day from the current 50,000, the assertion mentioned.
Help would even be supplied for IT interventions, together with strengthening the Central Warfare room at DoHFW, strengthening the COVID-19 Portal, the 1075 COVID assist strains and Co-WIN platform, the assertion mentioned.
Underneath the CSS parts, efforts are geared toward strengthening district and sub-district capability for an efficient and fast response to the pandemic.
States and UTs could be helped to supply care nearer to the neighborhood as a result of ingress of COVID-19 in rural, peri-urban and tribal areas, by creating pre-fabricated constructions for including further beds on the present CHCs, PHCs and SHCs (6-20 bedded items) and assist would even be supplied to determine larger area hospitals (50-100 bedded items) relying on the wants at tier-II or tier-III cities and district HQs, the assertion mentioned.
They’d be given assist to put in 1,050 liquid medical oxygen storage tanks with medical gasoline pipeline system (MGPS) with an purpose to assist a minimum of one such unit per district and increase the present ft of ambulances, the assertion mentioned.
As many as 8,800 ambulances shall be added underneath the package deal, it mentioned.
Undergraduate and submit graduate medical interns and closing yr MMBS, BSc and GNM nursing college students could be engaged for efficient Covid administration, it added.
In March 2020, when the nation was confronted with the primary wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PM introduced a Central Sector Scheme of Rs. 15,000 crore because the ‘India COVID 19 Emergency Response and Well being Methods Preparedness Bundle’, the assertion mentioned.
Since mid-February 2021, the nation is experiencing a second wave with unfold into rural, peri-urban and tribal areas, the assertion added.
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