Northeast Frontier Railway hospitals ready for treatment of Corona patients

* GM reviews availability of hospital beds & COVID Care Coaches

GUWAHATI: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the NFR (Northeast Frontier Railway) is making all-out effort to supplement the healthcare efforts of State governments.

The spectrum of steps include modification of passenger coaches as isolation coaches, equipping the existing railway hospitals to meet the emergency needs arising out of the second wave of the pandemic.

The General Manager of NF Railway, Anshul Gupta on Monday held a review meeting with all the Divisional Railway Managers of NFR through video conferencing to review the availability of hospital beds and COVID Care Coaches for COVID-positive patients.

In the fight against COVID-19, NFR has started treatment of COVID patients at the Railway Hospitals across its jurisdiction. The preparations are being done across all the divisions to meet the requirement of any possible exigency of keeping some corona patients as and when required by the State governments.

The NFR has kept ready special wards for treatment of COVID-positive patients with a total of 253 beds at various Railway Hospitals which include the 15 beds at Katihar, 100 beds at Central Hospital, Maligaon (Guwahati), 80 beds at Lumding, 24 beds at New Bongaigaon Railway Hospital under Rangiya division and 34 beds at Dibrugarh Railway Hospital under Tinsukia division which may be further increased depending on requirement.

Each of these special wards has all the basic healthcare facilities available for the treatment of COVID-positive patients with mild symptoms.

The NFR is ready to assist all States within its jurisdiction with provision of COVID Care Coaches as and when request is received from respective state governments to cope with the rising need of hospitalization owing to COVID-19 pandemic situation.

The NFR has kept COVID Care Coaches at various locations spreading various states for speedy deployment. A total of 40 coaches have been kept in Katihar and Siliguri areas under Katihar division; 22 coaches have been kept in Alipurduar area under Alipurduar division; 51 coaches have been kept in different location spreading over Rangiya division; 124 COVID Care Coaches have been kept ready in different location spreading over different States under the Lumding division; and 48 such COVID Care Coaches have been kept ready at different locations under Tinsukia division of NFR. Besides, 10 COVID Care Coaches havebeen already placed at Dimapur Railway Station in Nagaland and handed over to the State government for admitting COVID patients, stated a release from the Chief Public Relations Officer, SubhananChanda.

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