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the four E’s namely: in Neyveli, to provide secondary level care to its
• Early protection regular employees and their dependents, contract
• Early Detection workmen and their family members, CISF and their
• Early Isolation dependents and the general public as well, has been
• Early preparedness of Health Care facilities fully geared up to face the challenge of COVID
management through a number of measures in the
Preventive guidelines on personal hygiene, work areas of Infection Prevention and Control, Hospital
place hygiene, work place safety, hand washing, quarantine, clinical care management including
Social distancing, avoid crowding of Employees in critical care and augmentation of critical supplies.
Offices/ Plants / Units and engaging skeletal work The Hospital is well equipped to enable ‘surge
force by rostering for rendering essential services capacity of crisis management’ in order to reverse
and Work From Home (WFH) for other personnel community transmission in the unfortunate event
during Lockdown period have been issued and that it happens and achieve epidemic control.
strict implementation of the same has been ensured
at all times. After making a ground level assessment of available
facilities and strengths of the hospital, the Company
Exemption from Biometric Punching
has enabled additional services and created capacity
To break the chain of transmission of infection in the following areas:
from person to person and through contaminated
surfaces, NLCIL immediately complied with GoI Round the Clock Help Desk started functioning
advisory for exempting employees from Biometric at the Hospital to screen the incoming patients and
marking of their attendance. Attendance Monitoring guide them to avoid unnecessary movement inside
Systems in all the Mining and Thermal Power Plants, the Hospital.
Service units and Offices have been re-programmed
for enabling transition from biometric to show of ID Fever clinic: As a precursor to prevention and
card by all regular and contract workers. containment of COVID, Hospital has opened the
“Fever Clinic” with doctors positioned from 06.00
Leveraging Information, Education and
Communication (IEC) strategies am to 10.00 pm for screening of patients who report
with travel history involving affected countries
Use of effective and varied communication strategies and interstate travel within the country along
including, but not limited to, posters, banners, short
films and public announcements at worksites,
strategic locations in the township and outside,
enabled the NLCIL Team to create greater awareness
among the public to the threats of the epidemic as
well the preventive measures required in its wake.
This resulted in voluntary buy-in & acceptance of the
do’s and don’ts, in a spirit of responsible ownership,
which greatly helped the containment efforts of the
Company, increasing their effectiveness.

Hospital Readiness for meeting the extraordinary
challenge of COVID-19

The 350 bedded specialty hospital run by NLCIL

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