Chattogram Bureau :
The isolation center of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has started its journey on the south corner of Laldighi in the city. On Monday noon, city mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury inaugurated the 50-bed center built on two floors of the library building of CCC.
At the time, the panel mayor Gias Uddin, CEO Kazi. Mozammel Haque, Chief Health Officer. Dr. Selim Akhter Chowdhury, Project Manager of CCC ‘s Urban Health Project PA-1, Coordinator of Isolation Center. Md. Mujibul Alam Chowdhury wwere present. Patient admission will start in this center in a day or two. Dr. Md. Mujibul Alam Chowdhury told media that out of 50 beds, there are 35 beds for men on the second floor and 15 beds for women on the third floor. In the meantime, 11 doctors posted by CCC have joined. There will always be 10 doctors.
Besides, 12 paramedics, 3 pharmacists, 6 wardboys, 2 store keepers, 3 ward masters will be on duty 24 hours a day as per the roster. He said there is a plan to expand the isolation center after experiencing the situation. Then the beds and manpower will be increased. Initially, free health care, medicine-oxygen support, food and all necessary safety services will be ensured to the corona patients who come for treatment at the isolation center.
There will be an ambulance service for transporting and transferring patients. The people of CCC will collect the corona and other test samples of the patients of the center and deliver them to the specific laboratory. Complicated patients will be quickly referred to government hospitals, CCC sources added.
