Irfan Tramboo
Srinagar, Dec 8: In view of the threat that the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron is posing, the authorities today directed the health officers in the districts to increase the RT-PCR testing to keep a check on the spread of the infection across the Valley.
A communication issued by the DHSK in this regard stated that there is a need for monitoring the evolving situation continuously keeping in view the changing nature of the virus and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.1.529, named Omicron) variants of concern (VOCs.
“In this regard, all the Chief Medical Officers / Medical Superintendents / Block Medical Officers are impressed upon to increase the RT PCR testing in the hospital under their administrative control. So as to keep a check on the spread of the infection/ Virus,” the communication reads.
Meanwhile, in a circular issued here, the DHSK has directed the Medical Superintendents of the hospitals across Kashmir to set up IVF centres in their hospital and start doing that initially, to begin with, Intrauterine Insemination (IUI).
“This is to inform all Medical Superintendents of all district hospital for setting up of IVF centres initially, to begin with, the IUI as recently Gynaecologists have been trained from your respective districts in collaboration with OneLearning Smart Classes…and also setting up of Echocardiography units for which the physicians were also trained,” the circular reads.
Concerning setting up of IVF centres as well as the Echocardiography units in districts, several Gynaecologists, as well as Physicians, have already been trained and the same people have been directed to establish the units for the betterment of patient care.
For setting up of IVF clinics more than 30 doctors have been trained across the Kashmir division while as for the setting up of Echocardiography units, the same number of physicians across Kashmir has been trained during the sessions that were held in November.
In this regard, the DHSK has directed the concerned officials to set up the infertility clinics once a week at District, Sub District Hospitals. “The Gynaecologists and Radiologists shall work in close coordination once a week from induction till conception,” it said.
The officials in the districts have also been directed to make the necessary equipment available across all the DHs and SDHs. “The administrators should also set up small scale IUI laboratories in all DHs and SDHs and finally IVF centres,” it said.
The medical superintendents have been directed to submit the action taken report in this regard by December 20.
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