Around 120 volunteers including medical practitioners are working in the Centralised war room in Eranakulam. The district is one of the most hit by Covid 19 cases in Kerala. State government has put Eranakulam within triple lockdown along with other three districts having comparatively higher number of cases. And state also has extended its lockdown in all 14 districts till 23rd of this month.
Centralised war room in Eranakulam is the biggest of its kind set up by the Kerala government to provide adequate medical facilities to Covid patients by categorising and prioritising patients. The government has asked the citizens to avail this facility rather going for the hospitals on their own. As per telephonic requests, volunteers give proper advices about Covid 19 treatments. An open source data software, Coronasafe Network, that was introduced last year is used to run this war room drive.
It ensures that ventilator rooms are given to the patients that require them the most. Now, war room has been facilitated with an Oxygen availability monitoring section also. War room in Eranakulam coordinates with 70 private hospitals and 12 government hospitals.
Government has also ensured that adequate treatments are provided by the private hospitals too and initiated Karunya Arogya Program by which the government provide financial support to patients who are being treated by the private hospitals.
