Hospital bed availability mobile application developed in Punjab

LAHORE: Punjab government has developed a mobile application to indicate bed occupancy and availability of ventilators in hospitals across the province.

According to a press statement, the application would assist the officials of Rescue 1122 to track the beds and ventilators’ availability in the hospitals of every district of the province.

Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid said the Rescue 1122 and provincial health department staff were being provided necessary training in this regard.

Meanwhile, briefing the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) meeting about the smart lockdown mechanism in Punjab, Dr. Yasmin said that the province was all set to issue detailed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in that regard.

She said all-out efforts would be made to enforce the smart lockdown across the province, she added. The health minister said that Punjab had augmented its testing capacity and would run extensive awareness drive on SOPs to communicate the guidelines to the people.

She said notification for home quarantine of the corona-positive patients would be issued shortly. Minister for Planning Asad Umar lauded the Punjab government for taking a lead in developing the application to keep the health officials updated in real-time.

He instructed the other federating units to replicate the initiative for effective handling those coronavirus positive patients who had been home-quarantined.