Capital gets 400 new protective suits to fight Ebola

Sources said an eight-member rapid response team, headed by a nodal officer DHS, was formed for Ebola by the Delhi government, after a meeting convened by the Health department on October 30.

The team includes specialists in medicine, community medicine, paediatricians and microbiologists from Central government and Delhi government hospitals.

“This team is in-charge of the Ebola management in case a single case is identified,” an official said. A seven-member Training of Trainers (TOT) also participated in a training organised by the Union Health Ministry. TOT includes doctors from DHS, Aruna Asaf Ali hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College, LBS, LN, Swami Dayanand and BJRM hospitals.

This team, officials said, will be responsible for training doctors at other identified hospitals.

“LN hospital staff in the three-bed isolation ICU are being trained separately. WHO representatives participated in the meeting and we requested them to inspect both the hospitals. Our state Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP) is monitoring patients released from the quarantine facility at Airport Health Organisation (APHO), Delhi, for a 30-day period as mandated by the Centre. So while we should not be complacent because the disease has very high mortality rates, we are following all necessary precautionary measures as per protocol,” Das said.

A control room (011-22307145) has been set up at the DHS office in Karkardooma for Ebola along with an existing Union Health Ministry helpline.

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