Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Government Medical Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) has suggested a plan to tackle the massive outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across the state and the country.
The teachers body urged the Kerala government to set up a ‘COVID-19 war room’ in state-run medical colleges to coordinate the COVID treatment arrangements and implement special disability insurance for medical staff suffering from permanent health issues due to the viral infection, reported news agency PTI.
An expert panel of the KGMCTA’s Thiruvananthapuram unit prepared a list of suggestions, which were handed over to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister KK Shailaja the other day, a statement from the teachers body said here on Saturday.
As per the suggestions, the association urged the government to reserve the medical colleges exclusively for the treatment of critical COVID patients in urgent need of oxygen or ventilator support.
A COVID-19 war room should be set up in state-run medical colleges to coordinate the treatment arrangements. “The information on ICU and oxygen bed should be collected in real time and treatment system should be coordinated accordingly,” KGMCTA president of Thiruvananthapuram unit, Dr RC Sreekumar was quoted as saying by the agency.
It also wanted the government to ensure adequate stock of fresh high flow nasal oxygen and ventilator at medical colleges, Dr Sreekumar said.
“As COVID-19 mortality rate was very high among people suffering from kidney diseases, the organisation called for an increase in dialysis facilities for those affected with the virus infection,” KGMCTA unit said.
It also placed a request to the government to consider a two-week lockdown in the state if possible, in view of the super spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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