COVID 19 COMMUNICATION PLAN - HOSPITALS TO DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION RADIO COMMUNICATION

COVID - 19

ACTIVE HAMS AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY AARS-KL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION A PRESENTATION BY BIJU GOPI THILAKA (VU2HBI , CEO AULT INNOVATIONS). DOC VERSION 1.0 +91 944745 1144 EMAIL: root@linuxclub.org

COMMUNICATION PLAN HOSPITALS TO DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION PLAN KERALA, KOLLAM 18-03-2010 BY ACTIVE HAMS.

Activehams Amateur Radio Society of India AARS- KL INDIA ( http://www.aars.in) activehams@gmail.com / qso@aars.in http://facebook.com/activehams A Presentation prepared by Biju Gopi Thilaka (VU2HBI , CEO AULT Innovations). Doc version 1.0

RADIO OPERATORS WITH MEDICAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SKILLS

A team of 24 amateur radio operators , who are well trained and familiar to mange any medical emergency during an epidemic like COVID 19,assisted with another batch of civil defence and community rescue volunteers have deployed in hospitals, district administration, civil defence HQ and district medical office.

Radio STATIONS LOCATIONS DISTRICT CENTERS 1.

GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE

2.

GOVT:TALUK HEAD QUARTERS HOSPITAL

3.

KOLLAM DISTRICT HOSPITAL

4.

CIVIL DEFENCE HEADQUARTER

5.

KERALA FIRE & RESCUE OFFICE DHQ

6.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT HQ

7.

DISTRICT COLLECTORATE HQ

8.

DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT HQ

1

GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE

All the instructions from medical district headquarters, disaster management & Fire Force to this Covid 19 Ward is through VHF (Where we need to depend on Repeaters in Kollam District (VU2CSD** and VU2GCC).

DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS RADIO CONTROL ROOM

A Presentation prepared by Biju Gopi Thilaka (VU2HBI , CEO AULT Innovations). Doc version 1.0

UHF / BLOCK1

UHF / BLOCK 2

UHF / BLOCK 3

INTERNAL UHF COMMUNICATION

There are 4 floors (Block1 to Block 4) completely isolated and most of the communication from this isolated block to other inside departments are through UHF hand-held . The wireless communication room to the district headquarters has setup in another block to prevent any chances of cross infections for radio operators.

HAM STATION 2 VHF+ UHF

EXTERNAL VHF COMMUNICATION

All the Positive cases of Covid-19 are treating at government medical college as well as all active cases, patients with symptoms and people in medical isolations are referred here.

HAM STATION 1 VHF

HAM STATION 1 VHF

HAM STATION 2 VHF+ UHF

EXTERNAL VHF COMMUNICATION DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS RADIO CONTROL ROOM

2

INTERNAL UHF COMMUNICATION HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

TALUK HEAD QUARTERS HOSPITAL

Covid 19 Patients from rural district are admitted at Govt:Taluk Head Quarters Hospital Punalur, This hospital is 42 Kilometer from district headquarters. and this hospital was established in 1930 ,considered as one of the oldest and at the same time the most needy secondary health care institution at the southeast hilly belt of the state , as Punalur taluk is the most backward area among southern districts.

Two Amateur radio stations has setup here to exchange information to district medical office.

Hospital need 24x7 communication support to District medical headquarters.AARS-KL need more stations to Join with us to provide 24x7 support.

All the instructions and requests from medical district headquarters, disaster management & Fire Force to this Taluk Head Quarters Hospital is through VHF (Where we need to depend on VU2GCC Repeater).

A Presentation prepared by Biju Gopi Thilaka (VU2HBI , CEO AULT Innovations). Doc version 1.0

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KOLLAM DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Two Amateur radio stations has allocated here to exchange information to district medical office.

All the instructions and requests from medical district headquarters, disaster management & Fire Force to this Taluk Head Quarters Hospital is through VHF simplex operations.

HAM STATION 2 VHF+ UHF

VHF SIMPLEX COMMUNICATION

Covid 19 Patients in City can undergo for a First Level Screening here. After the screening for COVID 19 All the suspected cases are moved to Medical college Paripplly,(1) Where there is an Isolation Ward, Intensive Care Unit for Covid 19 Patients has arranged.

HAM STATION 1 VHF

INTERNAL UHF COMMUNICATION

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

DISTRICT COLLECTORATE RADIO CONTROL ROOM

A Presentation prepared by Biju Gopi Thilaka (VU2HBI , CEO AULT Innovations). Doc version 1.0

HAM STATION 2 VHF

SIMPLEX or REPEATER VHF COMMUNICATION

VHF OR SIMPLEX REPEATER COMMUNICATION

HAM STATION 1 VHF

CD VOLUNTEER WITH HAM LICENCE

4

CIVIL DEFENCE HEADQUARTER

A Civil volunteer in this district fire station, collect the sanitization requirement after hospitalization of a COVID-19 suspected patient in a an active or positive case from various centers (Cleaning home, vehicles of Covid 19 Patient is done by Fire & Rescue Team.

STATE BORDER HAM RADIO 1

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

DISTRICT COLLECTORATE RADIO CONTROL ROOM

We are setting up a parallel radio networking for connecting computer is going on by AARS-KL to connect two computer over radio as a backup plan for zero internet situation.

Assist the Civil Defence, distribute food packets to Ward level, approximately 1000 packets are distributing now.The requirements are communicating over phone to CD VOLUNTEER Station.

All the instructions and requirements from medical district headquarters, Civil Defence district head quarters to state border , hospital administration is through VHF rely and repeater or simplex operations.

We need more radio stations to assist in Inter- State border communication, at present we are looking for more ham radio stations to join and volunteer in coming days.

Same emergency communication setup of civil defence group has implemented for Fire & Rescue District head Quarters ,apart from this we are more into collecting the basic necessity shortage like food,rescue, transportation of aged citizens calls and other needs of public through CD volunteers are executing under the guidance of Fire Stations.

HAM STATION 1 VHF

HAM STATION 2 VHF

SIMPLEX or REPEATER VHF COMMUNICATION

KERALA FIRE & RESCUE OFFICE

VHF OR SIMPLEX REPEATER COMMUNICATION

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CD VOLUNTEER WITH HAM LICENCE

STATE BORDER HAM RADIO 1

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

DISTRICT COLLECTORATE RADIO CONTROL ROOM

VIEW OF AN ACTUAL STATION DEPLOYED AT FIRE & RESCUE OFFICE ”AARS-KL AIRWAVE” - WE ARE SETTING UP A PARALLEL RADIO NETWORKING FOR CONNECTING COMPUTER TROUGH HF RADIO . THIS WORK IS GOING ON BY AARS-KL AS A BACKUP PLAN FOR ZERO INTERNET SITUATION. A Presentation prepared by Biju Gopi Thilaka (VU2HBI , CEO AULT Innovations). Doc version 1.0

HAM STATION 2 VHF

SIMPLEX AND REPEATER OR RELEY OR HF VHF COMMUNICATION

VHF OR SIMPLEX REPEATER AND HF COMMUNICATION

HAM STATION 1 VHF / HF

DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICER AMATEUR RADIO STATION

RURAL HEALTH VHF / HF

VHF RELY STATIONS

HF RELY STATIONS

MAIN COMMAND & CONTROL ROOM

6

HEALTH DEPARTMENT DISTRICT HQ

All the rural medical centers which act as the preliminarily screening and non-emergency Covid19 admission center are connected with District administration end DMO Office. We have setup rely stations to ensure the smooth communication.

A specialized team of ham radio operators and Civil Defence members who has medical or paramedical experience has deployed in District medical College, where COVID-19 patience are admitted.

We are managing this communication using HF, an d V H F i n c l u d i n g 2 r e l a y s t a t i o n s , w h i c h i s required due to the irregular terrain, and other geographical feature of This district , ( all this stations are spreading across hills, flat midland and costal areas )

SUPPORTING HOSPITALS WITH AMATEUR RADIO. IT IS FAR BETTER TO HAVE A GROUP OF OUTSIDE VOLUNTEER HAMS AT THE READY TO GO INTO THE HOSPITAL AND BE SPECIALISTS AT PERFORMING COMMUNICATION TASKS WHILE THE HOSPITAL FOLKS GO ABOUT THEIR IMPORTANT PATIENT CARE DUTIES.

DISTRICT COLLECTORATE ROOM

DIST. COLLECOR COMMAND

fire & rescue fire & rescue radio room radio room

VHF

Inter Agency Communication, Hospitals to Hospital Communications, Co-Ordination of civil defence volunteers & activities, disaster management activities are co-coordinating from this command center.

DIST. DIST. DISASTER MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OFFICER

VHF

AARS-KL has setup the district Level COVID-19 War Room to co-ordinate all radio communication between different agencies at district collectorate where all the major district level co-ordination is going on as per the instructions from District Collector.

DIST. DISASTER MEDICAL DIST. OFFICER MANAGEMENT

civil civil defence defence hams hams

community rescue community rescue hams hams

dist. medical college for Covid 19 rural medical center -1 for COVID-19 rely stations for emergency rural medical center.

2 for COVID-19 VHF/ HF

VHF/ HF

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COVID -19 WAR ROOM - DISCTRICT COLLECTORATE

AMATEUR RADIO STATIONS ON DUTY STATIONS AT COVID 19 LOCATIONS

NORAML STATIONS WITH MEDICAL SKILLS

CIVIL DEFENCE,CRV STATION

OTHER STATIONS, RELY STATIONS AND PLANNING

J.S. SIDHARTH VU3WGI, 9633246161.

SREERAJ.R VU3FPJ 9995391958

RAJAN .G VU3ROO 9995831052

R.RAJAGOPALAN VU2RDL 9447497359

NANDU VINOBHAN VU3UKF, 8157949506

NAVAS

BIJU.S VU3WEO 9539347715.

NISHANTH A.K VU3MOE 9048848068

ABHIJITH.B VU3HWZ 8137898239

AJEESH

BIJU GOPI THILAKA VU2HBI, 9447451144

ALEN THOMAS VU3WGD 8592830602.

VAISAKH.M VU3UHJ, 7034870724

ASWIN

MATHEW VU2MTU

ANJU J VU3WLY 75928 69947

4/2/2020

VU3NAB

ERT / CIVIL DEFENCE

CIVIL DEFENCE

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FIRE & RESCUE CIVIL DEFENCE VOLUNTEER ON DUTY STATIONS AT COVID 19 LOCATIONS

NORAML STATIONS WITH MEDICAL SKILLS

CIVIL DEFENCE,CRV STATION

OTHER STATIONS, RELY STATIONS AND PLANNING

J.S. SIDHARTH VU3WGI, 9633246161.

SREERAJ.R VU3FPJ 9995391958

RAJAN .G VU3ROO 9995831052

R.RAJAGOPALAN VU2RDL 9447497359

NANDU VINOBHAN VU3UKF, 8157949506

NAVAS

BIJU.S VU3WEO 9539347715.

NISHANTH A.K VU3MOE 9048848068

ABHIJITH.B VU3HWZ 8137898239

JEESH

BIJU GOPI THILAKA VU2HBI, 9447451144

ALEN THOMAS VU3WGD 8592830602.

VAISAKH.M VU3UHJ, 7034870724

ASWIN

RAJASEKHARAN NAIR VU2RJR

ANJU J VU3WLY 75928 69947

4/2/2020

VU3NAB

LCIVIL DEFENCE

CIVIL DEFENCE

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SHRI.K HARIKUMAR DFO, KOLLAM PROVIDING RESCUE TRAINING FOR CRV MEMBERS AT FIRE & RESCUE OFFICE vu3ROO rAJAN AND VU3MOE NISHNATH 2019 TRAINING SESSION..

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AT COVID-19 WAR ROOM COLLECTORATE KOLLAM

ACTIVE HAMS ....

WHERE TECHNOLOGY MEETS HUMANITY CRV OF ACTIVEHAMS are trained ham radio operators to handle any emergency situations. WE are expert in providing medical First Aid like CPR or any medical emergencies in land and water .We are trained under Kerala Fire and Rescue Services. we were contributed our time & skills to save 100s of life during Kerala flood 2018. This was recognize by Kerala fire & rescue department, Govt of Kerala by awarding a letter of appreciation from Sri. a Hemachandran IPS, Director General- Fire & Rescue services ACTIVEHAMS AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY AARS-KL Govt Reg No : KLM/TC/196/2018 REGISTERED UNDER THE TRAVANCORE - COCHIN LITERACY, SCIENTIFIC AND CHARITABLE SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT X11 OF 1955