KOHIMA, MAY 17 (MExN): The Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) has been designated as a COVID-19 Hospital till further orders, informed the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare.
This was done in view of saturation of COVID beds at the hospital owing to exponential surge in new cases and detection of COVID-19 among patients admitted for other health problems.
An order from the Health Department however informed that emergency services shall be continued till alternative arrangements are made for delivery of essential healthcare services. The Managing Director & Medical Superintendent, Nagaland has been directed to continue management of already admitted patients till they are fit for discharge, while ensuring utmost care to prevent the risk of transmission.
It also ordered maintenance of an isolation ward to keep suspected cases till result is declared and to set up triaging system for prompt identification and delivery of services to serious patients. Except for confirmed Covid-19 cases requiring hospitalization, no non-covid-19 cases shall be admitted.
For optimum utilisation of resources, all asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic and mild cases which do not require hospitalization are to be admitted/transferred to CCC or home isolation. The order also directed expanding the capacity of oxygen supported beds and ICU, and to ensure adequate supply of oxygen and other essential medicines and consumables. To this effect, proposal may be submitted for additional logistic requirements, it added.
Rational deployment of manpower on COVID duty based on case load and for continuity of essential healthcare services has also been ordered while healthcare workers not on COVID duty are to be put on delivery of essential healthcare services.
Healthcare workers have also been asked to undergo rigorous in-house training on various aspects of COVID-19 management. Meanwhile, arrangement and deployment of necessary security measures has been entrusted to the District Task Force. In coordination with District Task Forces, suitable government health facilities and pooling of manpower for delivery of essential healthcare services including emergency secondary services are to be arranged.
