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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the health and medical education departments to prepare a special action plan for Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar districts as more efforts are needed to contain coronavirus spread and improve health services in these two districts
“A team of health officials should be sent to Ghaziabad district to camp there. This team should make efforts to improve the health services in Covid hospitals and provide the best services to COVID-19 patients,” Yogi said while presiding over a high-level Unlock 2.0 review meeting at his official residence here on Saturday.
The chief minister also directed officials to send a similar team to Bulandshahr district also.
Coronavirus testing in Uttar Pradesh is set to get a major boost in coming days as the ICMR has given its nod to the state government’s request to allow private hospitals to install TruNat machines.
“The ICMR has in principle given its nod for allowing private hospitals to install TruNat machines to test a patient whether he or she is coronavirus positive or not,” the chief minister said.
“This will boost the non-Covid treatment and major emergency operations in private hospitals where patients have to wait for days to come clear whether they are free of coronavirus infection,” he said.
The chief minister said that the Covid testing should be ramped up to more than 25,000 through RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) testing method. The testing should further go up with use of TruNat machines and rapid antigen tests,” Yogi said.
He directed officers to maintain proper arrangements in medical colleges and ensure that senior doctors take regular rounds.
He asked senior officials to nominate separate officers for monitoring of health services in medical colleges. He also asked the special secretary-rank officers, sent to districts as nodal officers, to monitor arrangements in the Covid hospitals.
The chief minister further directed officials to ensure that the relatives of patients admitted to Covid hospitals were informed about the condition of the patient on a regular basis. For this, the ward in-charge should make arrangements to inform on the telephone, he added.
Yogi again stressed on setting up Covid helpdesks in all hospital of the health department.
The chief minister directed officials to make quarantine and screening facilities for the travellers coming by international flights. Similar screening facilities should be made at railway and bus stations also, he said and asked officials to exercise all caution to control the spread of the infection.
He also directed officials to pay proper attention to the training of medical personnel for protection from medical infection and to make efforts to insulate PAC battalions from infection.
The chief minister asked officials to ensure social distancing norms along with better sanitation in public places. He said that door step delivery mechanisms should be ensured in the containment zones for supply of essentials.
Yogi also reviewed the progress of the prevention of communicable diseases campaign which was launched in the entire state on July 1 for next one month. The chief minister has shown interest in joining the campaign in some districts too.
The chief minister asked officials to give extra attention to food grain distribution under normal distribution and PM Poor Welfare Food Grain Scheme and said that while maintaining transparency in distribution, availability of food grain to the needy must be ensured.
“Keep an eye on the movement of locusts and ensure arrangements for control,” he said.
Meanwhile, Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi said that there were 2,765 coronavirus hotspots in the state which covered around 8.42 lakh houses and a population of over 49.38 lakh. He said there were 7,852 coronavirus positive cases in these hotspots and they were in hospitals while 9,518 people were in quarantine.