Amid the controversy over scarcity of oxygen in hospitals leading to hike in the prices of oxygen cylinders, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that oxygen plants should supply oxygen at the prescribed rate and there should be no shortage of oxygen cylinders.
“The officials should take stringent action against black marketing of oxygen. There should be no shortage of oxygen in any hospital and medical colleges should get oxygen at the prescribed rates,” the chief minister said while presiding over a high-level Unlock review meeting at Lok Bhawan here on Monday.
He said the drug controller should ensure proper supply of medicines and oxygen to the hospitals and send report to the CM Office on a daily basis.
The chief minister also directed the drug controller to ensure that all necessary medicines were available in all the Covid hospitals and medical institutes.
“There should be proper backup of the medicine supply. Also, there should be no hoarding of medicines and if it happens, the guilty must be punished,” he said.
The chief minister also said that all the medical colleges and hospitals of Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Meerut should function at full capacity, maintaining quality of treatment.
The chief minister asked officials to conduct training programmes regularly to ensure availability of adequate numbers of doctors and paramedics in various hospitals. He also asked them to increase the number of beds in the Covid hospitals under the Health department.
“There should be not less than 1,000 ICU beds in SGPGI, RML Institute of Medical Sciences and KGMU,” he said.
Yogi directed officials to take up contact tracing for Covid protection in an intensified manner. He said more teams may be deployed for contact tracing if required.
“Mass awareness programmes should continue to make people aware about protection and safety from COVID-19. The local bodies should make arrangements of public address systems through which the people could be informed about coronavirus protection measures,” he said.
The chief minister asked officials to ensure effective implementation of Atmanirbhar Bharat Package. He said all the departments should prepare action plans for its effective implementation so that the benefits of the package reached the state.
Yogi asked the officials to expedite construction of community toilets and panchayat bhawans in gram panchayats. He also directed the digging of pits to prepare compost as part of solid waste management. “It will serve the dual purpose of getting quality fertiliser as well as disposal of waste,” he said.
Those present in the meeting included Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner Alok Tandon, Agriculture Product Commissioner Alok Sinha, Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Sanjeev Mittal, Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Information) Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Director General of Police HC Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) Renuka Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Education) . Rajneesh Dube, Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister SP Goyal, Additional Chief Secretary (MSME) Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary (Rural Development and Panchayati Raj) Manoj Kumar Singh, Additional Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Devesh Chaturvedi, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sanjay Prasad, Secretary to Chief Minister Alok Kumar, Director of Information Shishir and other senior officers.
