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Covid mock drill held in Telangana hospitals: Official | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: Ramesh Reddy, the director of medical education in Telangana, on Tuesday, assured that the state is fully prepared to handle any situation related to Covid-19.
Speaking to reporters, Reddy said Covid mock drill to check infrastructure and preparedness to combat in case there is any spike in coronavirus cases has been conducted across all teaching, private, district, area and community hospitals in the state.
“Telangana registers Covid cases hardly in single digit. There are no hospital admissions. There is nothing to worry. But we have to take precautions. We are fully geared up to tackle any situation. The state has not reported any case of BF.7 variant,” PTI quoted him as saying.
The mock drill started at state-owned Gandhi Hospital and Medical College in the morning.
He said Gandhi Hospital, a Covid-19 nodal facility has genome sequencing centre and as when any new variant is detected, tracing and subsequent action will be initiated.
Replying to a query, the official said the state has created over 28,000 oxygen beds up to the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic and the number has gone up subsequently.
According to him, almost all big hospitals have oxygen tanks.
Speaking to reporters, Reddy said Covid mock drill to check infrastructure and preparedness to combat in case there is any spike in coronavirus cases has been conducted across all teaching, private, district, area and community hospitals in the state.
“Telangana registers Covid cases hardly in single digit. There are no hospital admissions. There is nothing to worry. But we have to take precautions. We are fully geared up to tackle any situation. The state has not reported any case of BF.7 variant,” PTI quoted him as saying.
The mock drill started at state-owned Gandhi Hospital and Medical College in the morning.
He said Gandhi Hospital, a Covid-19 nodal facility has genome sequencing centre and as when any new variant is detected, tracing and subsequent action will be initiated.
Replying to a query, the official said the state has created over 28,000 oxygen beds up to the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic and the number has gone up subsequently.
According to him, almost all big hospitals have oxygen tanks.
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