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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to ensure availability of all the required medicines for the treatment of COVID-19 with proper backup.
“Medicines and oxygen should be available in all the hospitals, medical colleges and medical institutes. Oxygen should be made available at the prescribed rates and strict action be taken against the black marketers,” the chief minister said while presiding over a high-level Unlock review meeting at Lok Bhawan here on Wednesday.
He said the Covid hospitals should have all arrangements. He said that doctors and nursing staff should take regular rounds in the hospitals and emphasis be given on their training.
“Increase the number of beds in the Covid hospitals. Contact tracing should be done with a sense of urgency for which strengthening of the surveillance teams system is necessary,” he said.
The chief minister directed officials to strengthen Covid treatment facilities in Lucknow and Kanpur Nagar.
He asked Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad and Additional Chief Secretary (Rural Development and Panchayati Raj) Manoj Kumar Singh to review the health services of Lucknow. Similarly, he asked Principal Secretary (Health) Alok Kumar to review the health services of Kanpur Nagar.
The chief minister also stressed on intense monitoring of patients admitted at Covid hospitals. He said the treatment and recovery pattern of the successfully treated patients should be studied well as it would help in treating other patients. The chief minister asked Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Education) Rajneesh Dube and Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad to review the pattern in medical colleges and medical institutes and district hospitals respectively.
Yogi reiterated that mass awareness was essential for protection and safety from COVID-19. He said that protection was the best option till a vaccine or medicine for COVID-19 was developed.
The chief minister was informed that an action plan was ready to publicise the Covid protection message and spread traffic awareness.
The chief minister asked the officials to take all necessary steps to make vegetables available at reasonable prices. He asked the officials to take strict action against hoarders of potato, tomato and onion.
He said preparations for paddy purchase should be made in a time-bound manner with an increase in the number of purchase centres.
Yogi asked officials to prepare an action plan with the State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) for providing loans under various schemes for successful implementation of Atma Nirbhar Bharat scheme. He stressed on district-wise target review to ensure loans to entrepreneurs, unemployed and other eligible persons.