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Cuttack: The Director of Odisha Vigilance Directorate, Debasis Panigrahi, who is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital after being infected with Covid-19, will be airlifted to Kolkata today for better treatment.
Panigrahi needs ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) treatment due to widespread infections and inflammations in the lungs.
The process for his airlifting has been finalised with two teams of doctors being readied to escort him to a multi-specialty hospital in Kolkata.
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A four-member team of experts from Kolkata has reached Ashwini Hospital where the top IPS officer was admitted. He will be airlifted to Kolkata in ECMO support. A team of ECMO experts and another team of critical care are present at the Cuttack-based private hospital for his shifting.
Sources said Panigrahi was admitted to the Ashwini COVID Hospital on May 29. After initial treatment, his condition showed no signs of improvement. He was shifted to the ICU and put on a ventilator as his condition further deteriorated.
As his oxygen saturation continues to dip, doctors advised ECMO treatment which is not available in Odisha.
On suggestion from the medical experts, it was earlier decided to shift him to a hospital in Hyderabad for advanced treatment for COVID infection.
Meanwhile, Odisha government has decided to start full-fledged Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) unit at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack due to rising requirement of such advanced treatment for seriously ill Covid patients. DMET Dr CBK Mohanty has said that the government decided to start with six units initially at SCB and gradually extend such facilities to other health care institutes in the State.
