Uttar Pradesh: CM Adityanath Issues Fresh Instructions, Tasks Team-9 To Manage Covid 2.0 | 10 Points

The Chief Minister had earlier this month set up ‘Team-09’ to tackle the surge in Covid-19 cases.

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Lucknow: With the aim of breaking the chain of corona infection and keeping villages safe from the virus, a large testing campaign is currently being conducted in more than 97,000 revenue villages of Uttar Pradesh on the directives by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Chief Minister had earlier this month set up ‘Team-09’ to tackle the surge in Covid-19 cases. Below are the directives given to ‘Team-09’, which has been overseeing Covid beds, availability of human resources and vaccination besides arrangements of medical kits, testing and increasing health facilities.

10 Key Instructions By CM Yogi Adityanath To Team-9 In Uttar Pradesh:

• Keeping in view the assessment of experts, special arrangements for the health protection of children need to be made in all districts. For this purpose, pediatric ICUs with a capacity of a minimum of 10-15 beds in all district hospitals and 25-30 beds in medical colleges should be prepared.
• There should be a minimum 100-bed pediatric ICU at Divisional Headquarters. Necessary medical equipment, medicine, etc. should be made available. Physicians and other staff should be trained in this regard at the earliest.
• Monitoring committees are doing door-to-door visits in villages and screening people. These committees provide medical kits to home isolated patients and other people with suspected symptoms as required. This system of medical kit distribution should be constantly monitored.
• Ventilators and oxygen concentrators have been provided in all districts. ACS Health, Principal Secretary Medical Education should ensure that these devices are operational in each case. Contact the concerned districts and get their problems resolved in this regard. In addition, if the ventilator/oxygen concentrator is not reported to be functional then the accountability of the DM/CMO concerned will be fixed.
• Availability of all medicines considered as life-saving including Remdesivir is being ensured in the state. The Government of India has also increased the daily allocation of Remdesivir for Uttar Pradesh. In government Covid hospitals this injection is completely free. This is being made available to private hospitals by the DM/CMO as per requirement. All the District Magistrates and CMOs should ensure that whenever a patient is given this injection, there is a doctor present along with the nursing staff. Complete details of the demand, supply, and consumption of this life-saving medicine should be maintained.
• Planned efforts are being made for the availability of medical human resources in view of future challenges. Medical/paramedical final year, interns, youth who have completed training, retired experienced people should be employed. In this regard, the process of selection and appointment should be completed in a week. A detailed review should be done by the Minister of Medical Education.
• Work is being done with full commitment to improving the supply and distribution system of Oxygen. All districts are being supplied oxygen as per the requirement. In the last 24 hours, 1,011 metric tonnes of oxygen has been distributed in the state. Of this, 632 metric tonnes have been supplied to refillers and 301 metric tonnes to medical colleges.
• Global tenders have been issued for the availability of cryogenic tankers. These tankers are also being provided by the Government of India. Additional tankers have been received from Reliance Industries. The number of tankers is increasing steadily, this has helped to further improve oxygen supply.
• There is a need to improve the arrangement of oxygen supply to the patients undergoing home isolation. Oxidation was made available to the Covid patients undergoing home isolation, suspected patients, non-Covid patients suffering from severe disease, or any patient who needed oxygen as per medical consultation. A necessary mandate in this regard should be issued today. All districts must have a smooth supply of oxygen at home for the undertrials. In view of the report of oxygen audit, the balance of supply distribution should be made.
• Keeping in view the partial corona curfew, proper arrangements should be made for the well-being of street hawkers, vendors, construction workers, labourers, etc. More than 350 community eateries have been started in the state, these need to be further increased. Community kitchens should be operated in all districts. It would be appropriate to get cooperation from private voluntary organizations also.
• Following the mantra of 'cleanliness, medicine, hardness', a campaign of state-wide sanitation and sanitation is going on. Sanitation, sanitization, fogging was done in 63,080 villages yesterday. People need to be aware of cleanliness. Corona curfew should be implemented effectively.
• Establishment of the oxygen plant should be expedited. The Chief Secretary should continue to monitor the plants being set up by the Government of India. Sugarcane Development and Excise Department have also got support in oxygen production and supply. Action is being taken to set up an oxygen plant in 70 districts.

At present, there are 2,16,057 active Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh. The state’s recovery rate is continuously getting better. So far, over 13.13 lakh people have successfully won the battle with corona.

In the last 24 hours, 20,463 new Covid cases have been confirmed in the state, while 29,358 people have recovered and have been discharged during the same period.