Haflong Civil Hospital to get COVID ICU soon

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HAFLONG: The construction of the Haflong COVID ICU will be completed this month, assured Superintendent of Haflong Civil Hospital, Dr Kalpana Kemprai. She said recently that the engineer of the construction department had checked the progress of the work and assured that the ICU would be completed soon.

At present Haflong COVID Hospital has only 68 general beds. Also, there is enough oxygen but some more oxygen is needed considering the situation. She added that CEM Debolal Garlosa of the North Cachar Hill Autonomous Council had also visited the hospital on Wednesday to take the stock of the situation as well as approved the bringing of 40 additional oxygen cylinders.

The number of COVID infected people is increasing day by day in Dima Hasao district. In the last one month, the number of COVID infections had exceeded 300. Currently, there are 176 active cases. But in that proportion, Haflong Civil Hospital, the only civil hospital in the district, does not have ICU for COVID patients.

Although the tender process was completed in February, the ICU block has not been constructed till date. Meanwhile, patients with COVID have started coming but as there is no ventilation system in Haflong the patients were referred to Guwahati. Hospital Administrator Nayatjyoti Goswami said that the Haflong COVID ICU would add 11 beds.

Meanwhile, Emanuel Islam, an employee at the Chief Minister's Diagnostic Centre at Haflong Civil Hospital, lost his job after being caught stealing COVID vaccines. Hospital Superintendent Dr Kalpana Kemprai said that on May 8, Emmanuel cleverly grabbed 10 vials of vaccine. At the same time, the matter came to the notice of the authorities and it was confirmed to be Emanuel after watching the CCTV footage. Emanuel was an employee of HLL Limited.

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