Private hospitals requested to share information on beds with district medical officer: Pinarayi

By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state authorities has requested personal hospitals to set aside a minimum of 25% of their beds solely for Covid sufferers. Announcing the choice, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated on Saturday personal hospitals have been requested to share data on beds obtainable to the district medical officer involved in order that sufferers could be admitted based on mattress availability. Hospitals within the non-government sector have additionally been requested to offer companies of medical doctors and different healthcare employees who’re proficient in Covid therapy every time the district authorities demand for a similar.

Private hospitals have additionally been advised to offer precedence to sufferers who’re critically unwell whereas allotting ICU beds. All personal hospitals ought to cost solely the therapy charges fastened by the federal government.The CM additionally requested hospitals within the personal sector to empanel themselves with the state well being company. Treatment bills of sufferers lined beneath Karunya scheme will likely be reimbursed to personal hospitals inside 15 days, the chief minister stated. During the primary part of Covid, the state had allotted `60.47 crore to personal hospitals for therapy of Karunya beneficiaries.

Meanwhile, the chief minister stated he has as soon as once more written to the prime minister saying it was unfair to cost states for Covid vaccine. Neither was the worth prescribed for vaccines affordable, he added. The PM ought to intervene to offer vaccines freed from price to the states and at a nominal value to the personal sector.

The CM stated the identical Covid vaccine is being supplied at three charges — `150 for the Centre, `400 for states and `600 for personal hospitals.“The price, `400, to be paid by the state is more than the rate in which governments in US, UK or European Union procure vaccine directly from the market,” he stated. Quoting experiences, Pinarayi stated Serum Institute was offering vaccine at a decrease charge to international locations corresponding to Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and South Africa than the quantity charged from states. If Covid vaccine is supplied at a charge of `600 per dose to personal hospitals, India would turn out to be a rustic that gives vaccine on the highest charge, he identified.