State’s active cases have taken a further dip as 30 more persons recovered from the virus taking the tally of recovered cases to 9,44,700. The active cases have reduced to197 from 216 in the past 24 hours. Districts which reported new cases are Udaipur (4), Ajmer (4), Alwar (1), Jaipur (1) and Nagaur (1).
Though the covid situation is improving across the state, the health department organized a video conferencing on planning of facilities to be developed as covid care facility, covid and non-covid services at health facility during Covid-19 under State Institute of Health & Family Welfare (SIHFW) Rajasthan. The focus of the video conference headed by health director Dr KK Sharma, was on planning of facilities to be developed as covid care facility.
Dr Praveen Aswal, state nodal officer of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme through light on effective functioning of covid and non-covid services at health care facility, while Dr Shalini Rathore, incharge (covid) at Mahila Chikitsalaya spoke on importance of antenatal care and postnatal care during covid-19. “Pregnant women should be advised to continue routine antenatal care with service modification to enable social distancing. Also, discuss women with high risk factors developing severe complications of covid-19 and advise them to seek medical help without delay,”said Dr Rathore.
She said that women with serious or critical illness with covid-19, requiring hospital admission should be given simultaneous obstetric care as these are at high risk of developing fetal distress, gestational diabetes and other complication.
The videoconferencing was attended by medical professionals across the state.
