There are around 2,000 patients from other districts and states admitted in designated Covid hospitals in Vadodara. In the last few days, there is a steady increase in number of deaths in patients coming from other districts of Gujarat, and in some cases from other States of India. This is partially because they arrive or are referred very late from other hospital in other districts where they were under treatment for COVID-19. Most of the private ambulance services of other districts do not follow the Intelligent Referral System (IRS) working for the nine districts of Central Gujarat. To ensure prompt and appropriate treatment to all needy patients of other districts and to prevent them from having to wait in ambulances in queue for admission to hospitals, the administration opened a Centralised War Room for them at Command And Control Centre, Badamdi Baug. All patients coming from outside districts of Vadodara will have to inform the War Room telephonically through the number 14420

Author-Shlok Talati