The Dhanbad district administration has installed a 60 bed ICU Covid treatment facility at Sadar Hospital on Sunday.

The number of ICU beds in the district has increased to around 250 after the April 18 permission given to 14 private hospitals to begin Covid treatment at their respective facilities.

Apart from the Sadar Hospital, two other main ICUs operating in the district are at Cath lab of Sahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College and Central Hospital of BCCL in Jagjivan Nagar. The 14 private hospitals also run their own ICU facility.

Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner, Uma Shankar Singh, monitored the installation of equipment and other facilities of the Sadar Hospital on Sunday. He designated three pharmacists at the hospital and instructed them to ensure management of the store room to ensure timely availability of all medicines and equipment for treatment of patients.

Singh instructed the nodal officer of the hospital Dr Rajkumar to ensure availability of PPE kits, gloves, masks etc to all the staff working at the hospital.

The deputy commissioner also wrote a letter to the Jharkhand Director of National Health Mission asking him to provide 200 pieces of jumbo type oxygen cylinders to the district.

In his letter, Singh pointed out that the Covid treatment facilities of Dhanbad with 250 ICU beds cater to the need to several adjoining districts including Bokaro, Girididh, Koderma, Jamtara, Godda, Sahebganj and lack of proper supply of oxygen cylinders may affect the treatment at these facilities.