K’taka links state-wide Covid-19 ICUs aiming zero mortality

Bengaluru, April 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Department has launched a state-wide Critical Care Support Unit, linking all Covid-19-19 hospitals' ICUs to aim for zero mortality, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said on Wednesday.

"The objective of the Critical Care Support Unit is to monitor Covid-19-19 patients in ICUs across Karnataka so that the hospitals are prepared for the potential onslaught of the virus and to achieve zero Covid-19-19 mortality in Karnataka," Sudhakar said in a statement.

Purported to be India's first such state-wide Covid-19 ICU monitoring support unit, the single platform will monitor the progress of each Covid-19 patient across the designated hospitals.

"We are able to capture the details of Covid-19 patients in ICUs in real time. This bottoms-up approach provides the necessary data for analysis by experts of the taskforce," said Sudhakar.

Jawaid Akhtar, Additional Chief Secretary, health department, said a centralised team of doctors from the department and medical colleges, interns from KIMS, MS Ramaiah Hospital and B.R. Ambedkar Medical College will monitor the platform.

"This team will work round the clock in three shifts to monitor patients admitted to the ICUs. At the end of each day, the Critical Care Support Unit will review the progress and implementation of the action plan and share it with higher authorities for further action," Akhtar said.

According to Akhtar, the support unit will also serve as a handholding facility for doctors in interior parts of the state, who are deprived of new technologies.

Pankaj Kumar Pandey, Commissioner, Health and Family Welfare Department, said, "As and when the ICU preparedness of a designated hospital is uploaded in the e-health platform, a medical officer will certify the same. Details of ICU patients will be then uploaded, including their treatment methodology."

Later, the data will be monitored and analysed by the experts and then the nodal officer will be apprised of any deviation.

Further, data can be compiled and reported to the taskforce on a daily basis.

"This data will be of immense help as it will allow us to take precautionary measures to avoid escalations," added Pandey.

Similarly, the Karnataka government is also forming a team of experts from corporate hospitals in the city, consisting of cardiologists, pulmonologists, nephrologists and physicians to connect them to the patients in the districts for suitable treatment.

Source: IANS