Panaji: Goa government on Tuesday said that the infrastructure required to tackle the third wave of COVID-19 has been ready, while the paediatricians are being trained to adhere to the treatment protocol prescribed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant told reporters that the infrastructure is ready while training will be completed between June 5 to 10.
Sawant said that “the common SOP has been worked out for the private and government sector to treat children infected with coronavirus.”
The department of paediatrics of Goa Medical College and Hospital will be training the paediatricians about the SOP, which is recommended by AIIMS, he said.
Sawant said that the counsellors from State Education Department, Goa State AIDS control society and Women and Child Welfare department would be roped in as a part of program to tackle the third wave.
The chief minister said that the strict monitoring of the COVID-19 infected children, who are kept in the Home Isolation would be done.
The state government has also decided to vaccinate lactating mothers with a child of less than two years age and also mothers with comorbid conditions as a priority to fight back the third wave.
Sawant said that the vaccination for these mothers would be a priority for which the state government has moved a proposal to loan the vaccines from the lot meant to vaccinate people above 45 years of age.
“Only 6,000 vaccines which are meant for the age group of 18-44 years are left with the state government after the first round,” he said adding that the second lot of 36,000 vaccines would be arriving in the first of June.
The chief minister said that the State government has also approached two different vaccine manufacturing companies to get 5 lakh and 10 lakh vaccines respectively.
Sawant said that out of total infected population, eleven percent are those below 17 years of age. There are seven patients who are below 18 years of age who have succumbed to the infection and all of them were having co morbid conditions, he said.
