ITBP referral hospital treats 1,150 COVID-19 patients

  Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) referral hospital, located in Greater ida, has so far treated more than 1,150 COVID-19 patients belonging to Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and ir family members, an official said.

hospital has seen a very high recovery rate which is almost 100 per cent and only one patient died during treatment, due to heart attack, ITBP spokesperson Vivek Kumar Pandey said.

recovery rate at facility is way above national recovery rate of 78 per cent, despite fact that 25-30 per cent admitted patients at hospital had co-morbidities like cancer, TB, heart disease etc, he said, adding that about 8-10 per cent patients were critically ill at time of admission with major breathing difficulty.

This was a serious situation and required continuous monitoring and oxygen. All critical patents recovered due to tireless efforts of hospital staff, said spokesperson. 

Among 1,150 COVID-19 patients who received treatment at ITBP referral hospital till September 8, as many as 289 were from ITBP, 200 from CISF, 196 from CRPF, 159 from SSB, 91 personnel from BSF, 83 from NSG, 64 from SPG, 19 from IB, 15 from NIA, 10 from NDRF, seven from NTRO, five from Ministry of Home Affairs, three from CBI and one from BPRD.

During nationwide lockdown, a lot of personnel from various paramilitary forces got infected with COVID-19 while performing law and order and internal security duties and being deployed in containment areas.  y faced difficulties in getting beds in hospitals in Delhi-NCR region.

During this time facilities of referral hospital were opened up for all uniformed forces, or sister ncies and ir families, spokesperson said.

Equipped with specialised facilities like hip replacement, knee replacement, dialysis, n-invasive cardiology, laparoscopic surgical procedures, cancer screening etc, state of art facility is t less than a unique super speciality hospital of its kind he said. hospital is headed Dr DC Dimri, IG (Medical) and has about 50 specialist doctors from Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) and Central Police Organisations (CPO).

success in treating COVID-19 patients was achieved because of dedicated teams of doctors, paramedics and nurses who worked round clock and attended to all patients with utmost care and caution, spokesperson said.

doctor or hospital staff suffered any COVID infection despite being exposed to disease for long periods of time during ir duty.  Inaugurated in 2018, hospital has been a "dream project" of Ministry of Home Affairs and ITBP, he said. 

(Im Credits:PTI)