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30-bed hospital set up
A 30-bed hospital has been set up at the Triveni Marg in Magh Mela area to provide round-the-clock emergency and health facilities to the Kalpvasis and devotees coming from different states.
A 30-bed hospital has been set up at the Triveni Marg in Magh Mela area to provide round-the-clock emergency and health facilities to the Kalpvasis and devotees coming from different states.
The hospital is equipped with all the emergency facilities, which will be managed by a team of 25 specialists and paramedical staff from district hospitals. Special First Aid Kits have also been prepared to provide quick treatment to the people injured in stampede, burn, drowning or any other incident on the main bathing days.
The district health department has deputed ten additional ambulances on the occasion of Makar Sankranti and Paush Purnima incidentally both falling on Saturday. Two ambulances will also remain deputed at the main hospital at the Triveni Marg to bring emergency cases to the hospital. Emergency, life saving and anti-diarrhoeal drugs have also been stocked in adequate quantity at the hospital.
Ten beds each have been reserved in the Tej Bahadur Sapru (Beli), MLN (Colvin) and Dufferin Women's Hospital to deal with any untoward incident. Five First Aid Posts have also been set up at Arail, Sangam Nose, Parade, Dandi Bara and Jhusi.
Two First Aid Posts have already become operational and the remaining three will start functioning by Friday evening.
The Magh Mela area will also have 1838 PRA type and 624 deep trench toilets and 142 urinals.
The department has also done anti-larva fogging to seal the Magh Mela area and get rid of mosquito, fly and other insects. The manual fogging will be done daily in the Mela area. A team of health inspectors has also been formed which will daily collect samples of food and drinking water in the Mela area and send them for tests, informed district health department store incharge Dr Murari Verma.
Dr Verma said six additional specialists from Beli Hospital will be deputed on Saturday to provide emergency facility to the people. However all the delivery and gynae cases will be referred to the Dufferin Hospital, he added.
