JORHAT, May 28 - In a boost to medical services in Majuli, three ventilators were installed at the Shree Shree Pitambar Devagoswami Subdivisional Hospital at Garmur and became functional from Wednesday.
A district administration official stated that now critical care could be provided to patients suffering from serious respiratory problems. The ventilators have been installed at the COVID-19 isolation ward. All medical personnel, technicians and official attached to the critical care section were given training on operating the ventilators.
16 sent for home quarantine: Meanwhile, 16 persons of Majuli who returned from outside Assam and were under institutional quarantine in Jorhat, were on Wednesday sent for home quarantine in Majuli after their swab test results were found negative at the JMCH.
A Majuli administration official informed that the 16 people who were sent home by vehicles arranged by the district administration have been directed to be under home quarantine in isolation from other family members for the remaining days of the mandatory 14-day quarantine period. They were given necessary documents by the administration and stamping was done on them, the official said.
The official informed that the administration, with support from village-level monitoring committees constituted recently to keep close watch on home-quarantined persons, will be keeping an eye to ensure that home-quarantined people strictly follow the rules. �If any home-quarantined person is found violating the rules, then the administration will lodge FIR at police stations and legal action will be initiated accordingly,� the official cautioned.
Earlier this week, 167 returnees from outside the state who were from Majuli were sent to the Brahmaputra island for home quarantine from institutional quarantine in Jorhat after their swab results tested negative, the official informed.
