Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Health Ministry in a virtual
Conclave with Private Hospitals emphasises compliance of National Clinical
Treatment Protocols and Best Practices
Hospitals exhorted to ensure seamless admission of patients
Posted On: 12 SEP 2020 4:49PM by PIB Delhi
The Union Health Ministry in
collaboration with FICCI and AIIMS, New Delhi, organized a virtual conclave for
private hospitals providing COVID-19 treatment in the country. This provided a
platform for discussion of clinical protocols and best practices in COVID-19
management towards reducing avoidable deaths.
While COVID-19 has posed
unprecedented challenges to the country’s healthcare systems, there have been
proactive responses from the government as well as the private industry. The
Conclave was organised to share the best practices and effective treatment
modules being implemented by the public and private sector hospitals in the
country. The Ministry also encouraged the hospital representatives to share
their key concerns and challenges being faced while managing COVID-19 in their
facilities.
Union Health Secretary
inaugurated the virtual conference. He reiterated the resolve of the Government
to ensure that patient of COVID-19 must not be denied beds and must be provided
prompt treatment. The collective goal must be to have a health system that
available, affordable and accessible to all. He highlighted that the aim of the
Centre along with the State/ UT governments is to achieve a mortality rate of
less than 1%.
The best practices included
discussion of the tele-consultation sessions conducted by AIIMS, New Delhi
through the e-ICU, Centers of Excellence (CoE) and Clinical Grand Rounds to
enhance the clinical management capacities of the ICU doctors in various
States/UTs. This, supplemented by various other focussed strategies of
containment, prevention, early identification, has resulted in higher
recoveries and steadily declining mortality.
During the meeting, the
importance of timely treatment of comorbid patients to reduce fatality was
stressed upon. Hospitals were encouraged to protect healthcare workers by
adopting all practices on infection prevention and control and keep the staff
motivated. Hospitals were also asked to ensure seamless admission of patients.
The importance of evidence-based treatment protocols and reducing heterogeneity
in treatment to COVID-19 patients was also underscored.
Senior doctors from private
sector hospitals also shared their experiences and challenges about their
battle against COVID-19. Several best practices were shared by the private
hospitals, including regular monitoring of key metrics at the facility level
and leveraging technology to support hospital staff in tier-2 and tier-3
cities. Concerns around delayed referral of patients from smaller facilities
and financial stress owing to lack of health insurance were also
discussed. The Conclave was attended by more than 150 hospital
representatives, senior doctors and clinicians from across the country.
Prof BalramBhargava, Director
General, ICMR, Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, Shri Lav Agarwal, Joint
Secretary, MoHFW, Dr Sangita Reddy, President, FICCI and JMD, Apollo Hospitals
Enterprises,Dr Alok Roy, Chair, FICCI Health Services Committee and Chairman,
Medica Group of Hospitals were also present.
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