Bhubaneswar: In view of the resurgence of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic across Odisha, the state government on Friday reiterated its direction to all government and private hospitals having facilities for treatment of the disease to set up Help Desk.
It a letter to district collectors, municipal commissioners, deans and principals of medical colleges and hospitals and CDM & PHOs, PK Mohapatra, additional chief secretary, Health and Family Welfare department has directed to strictly enforce the government advisory on Help Desk with immediate effect in order to ease the management of COVID facilities across the state.
Mohapatra said despite the government’s advisory issued on April 22 for setting up the Help Desk to provide information to the near and dear ones of the COVID-19 patients being treated in COVID facilities, complaints are being received that they were not getting any feedback on the status of the patients.
After careful examination of the matter, the government has stipulated the following guidelines to be followed for establishing the dedicated Help Desk in each COVID-19 facility with immediate effect:
The letter further said any violation of the above provisions and non-functioning of the help desk will lead to necessary action as deemed fit against the erring hospital.
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