Bihar: Boost facilities for Covid positive pregnant women, Nalanda Medical College and Hospital told

PATNA: In the wake of complaints received from many Covid positive pregnant women, divisional commissioner Sanjay Kumar Agarwal has instructed the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) to provide proper facilities for their delivery and take care of them and their babies till they are fit. He has also asked the Covid-dedicated hospital to depute doctors of the gynaecology and paediatrics departments in shifts.
“The pregnant women, who have tested positive for Covid, do not need to worry because the NMCH will help them,” Agarwal said on Monday and announced that the doctors and health workers, who would provide their commendable services during Covid times, would be felicitated.
While holding a meeting via videoconferencing with the hospital superintendent and other officials, the divisional commissioner said, “Newborns, who test positive, should be kept under observation in the neonatal intensive care unit.”
Head of the gynaecology department, Dr Renu Rohtagi, told Agarwal, “In most cases, the babies of Covid positive mothers were not infected and tested negative.”
The district administration is also identifying a few private hospitals in Patna where special labour rooms and wards can be created. “We will check if they have facilities like labour rooms, operation theatres and neonatal intensive care units and select them accordingly,” said the commissioner.