Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated 9 extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines, which help the lungs or coronary heart of severely sick patients and permit the organs to recover, withinside the authorities-run SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack.
The 9 ECMO machines represent the biggest ECMO unit in Japanese India. “The ECMO performs a life-saving function for crucial COVID-19 sufferers. Seriously sick COVID-19 sufferers of Odisha will now no longer be required to head out of doors to avail this remedy,” Mr Patnaik stated.
He added, “Highly certified doctors and specialists had been engaged to function those units. ECMO remedy could be very high priced however the State authorities will make the remedy to be had freed from value. People will now no longer undergo any value for this.”
“The reminiscence of the second wave could be very painful. Though lockdown regulations had been eased, the risk nevertheless persists. We should stay careful to stand the third wave,” stated Odisha CM.
“According to experts, kids are in all likelihood to be affected the maximum withinside the third wave. To protect kids, we want to observe COVID-19 recommendations as strictly as possible. I request all to keep carrying masks, washing arms and keeping bodily distance,” Mr Patnaik exhorted.