COVID HOSPITAL INAUGURATED IN TALCHER
Dhiramohan Ray,Odishabarta
TALCHER: A 150 -beded COVID 19 Hospital of Odisha government opened at Talcher in Angul district today with the assistance of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital.
The hospital is funded by the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL).
The hospital will have 150 beds besides an ICU with six beds. MCL will provide support to the hospital while doctors, nurses and paramedical staffs from IMS and SUM Hospital will run the facility.
This is the third COVID Hospital being set up in the state with the assistance of the IMS and SUM Hospital within the last fortnight.
The new hospital at Talcher was inaugurated through a video conference in which Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Union minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan, Union minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Prahlad Joshi,Minister of health and family welfare Naba Das, state Chief Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy, Development Commissioner Suresh Kumar Mohapatra, Secretary to Chief Minister (5T), V.K.Pandian,the chief spokes person on COVID-19 Subroto Bagchi and senior officials have taken part.
The Chief Minister thanked the doctors and medical staffs who had taken up the responsibility to treat COVID-19 patients while expressing his gratitude to MCL for supporting the cause. He appreciated SOA’s decision to take up the responsibility and setting up the facility at coal city of Talcher.
Dharmendra Pradhan said in Video conferencing that as many as 682 COVID Hospitals have been set up in the country till now Odisha is taking the lead. He, however, expressed the hope that none of these hospitals would receive any patients over the next six months. But these facilities should continue for the next one year till the COVID-19 threatment was stamped out from the world.
Among others,Vice-Chancellor of SOA Prof. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, SOA Director Prof. Manas Kumar Mallick, Dean (Students Welfare), Dr. Jyoti Ranjan Das, senior doctors at IMS and SUM Hospital Dr. Iswar Behera and Dr. B.K.Pati, were present.
