Thread by @TheRightster

I've been seeing various things being in short supply & thought of a simple & efficient way to tackle these shortages. I hope the powers to be take note of it. Please do read it fully and also suggest any changes as you deem fit as possible. 🙏🏼

#thread on #covindSecondWave

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1. Hospital Beds : Create a central public portal having detailed inventory of all the beds of all Covid designated Hospitals across India having details like expected per day room charges, contact details, directions (redirect to Google maps). All data should be real time.

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This can be done by appointing a portal updating person in the admissions department of the hospital. So after every admission, the data can be updated to be most accurate all the time. This way people have knowledge of vacancy of normal beds, beds with oxygen & ventilators.

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2. Liquid Oxygen, Remdisivier, Drugs, & Vaccines : A similar portal can be made for these essential items which show the total production, allocation to various states, distribution at district level and availability at local hospital level to aid patients & their relatives.

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3. Testing : Similarly create a public portal which gives details of testing places & their contact details, along with the number of tests done by each testing lab daily instead of a blanket number for a state. Details of private labs & their charges should also be added.

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The numbers reported should be from each testing lab instead of a blanket number for a whole state. Further additional stats like number of repeat tests done, unique (after gap of x days) tests & first time tests done should also be given to facilitate in understanding.

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I know these things require massive resources to build & update but we had 1 year lead time for this. Instead of patients & relatives running between different hospitals in search for beds & other essential items, a central portal or app giving data will be more helpful to them.