Jharkhand health department on Wednesday notified two state-dedicated hospitals and 15 district-level ones for Covid-19 after the first positive case surfaced in the state on Tuesday.

The trauma centre at RIMS Ranchi with 100 non-ICU beds and 25 ICU beds with ventilators will be the largest state-dedicated Covid-19 hospital. The second is Paras HEC Hospital at Dhurwa in Ranchi, with 55 non-ICU beds and five ICU beds with ventilators.

Fifteen district-level Covid-19 hospitals have been notified at Ramgarh (one), Bokaro (two), Jamshedpur (two), Dhanbad (one), Deoghar (one), Garhwa (one), Koderma (one), Lohardaga (one), Hazaribagh (two), Dumka (one), Simdega (one) and Gumla (one) with a total of 1,239 non-ICU beds and 200 ICU beds with ventilators.

East Singhbhum civil surgeon Dr Maheshwar Prasad said they also inspected facilities at Tata Main Hospital in Bistupur and Uma Superspeciality Hospital in Mango, both Jamshedpur, for dedicated Covid-19 hospitals for the district. The Tata Main Hospital has 130 non-ICU beds and 37 ICU beds while Uma Superspeciality Hospital has 100 non-ICU beds and six ICU beds.

Panel numbers

Health minister Banna Gupta on Wednesday set up a five-member Covid-19 assistance committee and released their phone numbers for 24/7 help. The panel, to work from MGM Hospital at Sakchi, comprises Dinesh Pandey (9279283285), Uday Shankar Jha (6200514662), Prabhat Gupta (8210623089), Sanjeev Kumar Sharma (7761055191) and Ruma Mallick (8809395499).

Panic in mart

Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee, the local civic body, sanitised the vegetable market at Christian Maidan near Sonari Airport on Wednesday after panic struck vegetable-sellers on watching a man in his mid-30s develop what looked like respiratory distress.

The resident of Sonari had come to buy vegetables at 7am when he had a fit while coming out of his car, East Singhbhum epidemiologist Dr M. Asad said. “People panicked and informed the district control room for Covid-19,” Asad said. “We rushed to the spot and admitted the man in the isolation ward of MGM Hospital and took his throat swab. He does not have a travel history. We will get his report from the lab of the MGM Medical College on Thursday,” he added.

Later, the man said he had epilepsy.

JNAC city manager Sandeep Kumar said they sanitised the person’s car and area and sealed the market till afternoon.

The police also held 74 persons in the steel city for flouting the lockdown and released them on PR (personal recognisance) bonds.