Jambusar taluka non-operational amid pandemic: Mansukh Vasava to Gujarat Deputy CM

With the rising variety of Covid-19 circumstances in Bharuch district, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Mansukh Vasava in a letter to Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, who can also be the state Health Minister, has stated Jambusar taluka, which has been among the many most-affected by the coronavirus illness within the district, doesn’t have a single authorities facility for Covid-19 therapy.
In the letter, Vasava has alleged the lone authorities hospital within the taluka has been non-operational throughout the present pandemic as a result of authorities docs have been “busy running their private practice” in cities like Vadodara.
“Bharuch district has a number of patients admitted to the government as well as private hospitals for Covid-19 treatment. But despite several directions, the government hospital in Jambusar in the district has not become functional for Covid-19 treatment. The private hospitals in Jambusar are treating Covid-19 patients but the government hospital is yet to admit patients. In this context, it has been learnt that the doctor on duty at the Jambusar Civil Hospital is running a private hospital in Vadodara and has no interest in working at the government hospital. Therefore, you must conduct an immediate inquiry into the matter and take appropriate action to ensure that the Covid-19 treatment begins in the Covid-19 hospital in Jambusar,” the letter states.
A replica of the letter has additionally been marked to Surat MLA Kishor Kanani.
When contacted, Bharuch Collector M D Modiya stated, “The facility is not a civil hospital but a sub-urban health centre that can be functional as a Covid Care Centre. We have already directed the centre to make arrangement for a capacity of about 27 to 29 occupants, and it will be functional this week. There is only one civil hospital in the district in Bharuch town and our dedicated Covid-19 facility is in Ankleshwar at a private hospital that we have taken over.”

According to an built-in Intelligent Referral System (IRS) developed by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) for availability of beds throughout districts of Central and South Gujarat round Vadodara metropolis, the one Covid-19 hospital in Jambusar, a private-run Al Mahmood Hospital, has a capability of 90 beds which have been all occupied on Tuesday.
Bharuch district has a complete of 43 empanelled Covid-19 hospitals with a complete of 1,293 beds — 1,133 oxygen-equipped and 175 ICU beds with 97 ventilators. The district up to now has recorded a complete of 4,531 Covid-19 circumstances, 429 of which have been reported since April 1.