Preparations To Deal With Possible Nuclear Attack At Noida Airport, 20 Hospitals Will Be Made Super Specialist
Gautam Buddha Nagar Health Department has made preparations to deal with a possible nuclear attack at Noida International Airport in Jewar. Under this, 20 hospitals are being equipped with superspeciality facilities. In these, ICU and emergency beds will be increased, and chemical laboratories will also be established. Hospital managers have been given a time limit of three months. The role of airport authority and district administration has also been decided for disaster management.
Gautam Buddha Nagar Health Department has made preparations to deal with a possible nuclear attack at Noida International Airport in Jewar. Image AI
Sumit Shishodia, Noida. After two decades, that historic moment has arrived in Jewar, Uttar Pradesh, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Noida International Airport and give the green signal to national and international flights. Amidst the impenetrable security at the airport and luxury facilities for the passengers, the Gautam Buddha Nagar Health Department has prepared a security blueprint to deal with a nuclear attack.
The department has given approval to equip 20 hospitals with superspeciality facilities for the patients injured and burnt in the nuclear attack. It has also been agreed to increase the beds in ICU and emergency wards of 16 hospitals by 20 to 50 percent. Top officials have given a deadline of three months to the hospital managers. Health department officials are serious about disaster management at the airport and providing immediate treatment to patients in case of any kind of emergency. On March 23, the Health Department held an in-depth consultation on health services in a meeting with managers and administrative officials of various hospitals.
Meanwhile, managers of 20 hospitals including Medanta, NIMS, JIMS, Max, Kailash, Fortis, Sharda, Yatharth and Mahananda were the first to reveal the record of their facilities and services. It was decided that all hospitals would have to set up chemical labs to deal with nuclear attacks.
Apart from this, there should be a burn ward to provide treatment to injured and burnt patients in golden time. Arrangements for 150 to 250 beds will have to be made inside the emergency ward and ICU. Availability of nuclear antidote should be ensured with the help of scientists in the chemical laboratory. Plastic surgeons, general surgeons and other specialists should be deployed in hospitals within two months.
Instead of referring patients to higher centres, arrangements will have to be made for treatment by installing state-of-the-art machines. Chief Medical Superintendent Dr. Ajay Rana, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Chandan Soni, Dr. Shweta Khurana from the Health Department have given the hospital managers a deadline of three months to create facilities on the lines of super specialty.
Airport authority will deal with disaster within a radius of eight kilometers
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Narendra Kumar said that it was decided in the meeting that in case of any disaster in the airport, the authority's agency will make arrangements to deal with it, while the responsibility outside it will be the District Disaster Management Department.
The rule of the government is that whenever a disaster occurs in the district, all the powers of the department will come under the control of the District Magistrate. In such a situation, if any disaster occurs in the premises outside eight kilometers, the District Magistrate will make arrangements to deal with it. Under this strategy and rules, the Health Department has given approval to make 20 hospitals superspeciality.
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