Deputy Commissioner, Nazim Zai Khan today informed that district administration has established well equipped 250 bedded quarantine centres at Dhalwas area besides converting around 30 hotels into quarantine centres at Ramban, Banihal, Gool and Batote to facilitate people who are identified for administrative quarantine.He informed that in the district total 1082 bed quarantine facility has been created and administration is also establishing Wellness Centers at Kanthi, Dharmond, Higher Secondary School, Ramban besides other identified locations across the district to create 500 bed facility for patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) for their further treatment and medical tests in isolation.All the facilities including sanitation, medical treatment, healthy food and other facilities necessary for comfortable stay there have been ensured by the administration, he added. Taking a prompt action keeping in view unprecedented prevailing situation and increasing of Corona virus positive cases across the country as well as in other districts of UT of Jammu and Kashmir, district administration has upgraded the Health facilities in all the Health Institutions of the district.He further informed that administration has created 50 bedded special wards and installed two new ventilators in District Hospital (DH) Ramban to tackle any emergency related to COVID-19 besides providing each of them 1000 N-95 masks and sanitizers in addition to 15 numbers of PPE kits to ensure safety of doctors, paramedical staff as well as frontline workers deployed in COVID-19 duty.
Besides this a well equipped 25 bedded special health centre has also been established in Trauma Hospital, Ramban with 25 bed facility at Sub District Hospital, Gool by the administration to meet emergency situation.It was also informed that district administration has sufficient stock of emergency medical material including Beds, Bedding, dustbins, masks, and sanitizers besides drugs and equipments being utilized to treat COVID-19 patients.As a move to scale up activities for combating Corona virus outbreak administration has provided spray machines, fogging machines besides prescribing chemicals being used for disinfecting hospitals, offices, towns, public places as well as other localities to all the Tehsils and Municipal Committees .To reach out distressed, destitute families and other needy people administration has also provided sufficient quantity of ration items including rice, flour, pulses, oil, potato, salt, onion, turmeric and besides other daily use items to civil QRT Ramban for distribution among needy people across the district.The DC appealed the public to cooperate with the administration adding that administration is making all efforts to ensure all support to people including delivery of essential commodities at their door steps. He lauded the PRIs and other volunteers for helping the district administration.DC also distributed, PPE kits (Full body safety Kits), personal as well as community sanitation material among NGOs and frontline workers which are rendering their services to prevent COVID-19.