Raipur, 19 April 2021. Taking a sensitive initiative, Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel has allowed collectors to purchase Remedisvir and other essential life-saving medicines as per the urgency. He has also approved the establishment of RTPCR Testing Lab in Balod and Mungeli. In a virtual meeting held at his residence office here today, the Chief Minister gave these approvals during a review of the current status of corona infection and measures to control it in 11 districts of the state. The districts are constantly being reviewed by the Chief Minister in view of the present condition of Corona. In this series, today he reviewed Mahasamund, Gariaband, Dhamtari, Balod, Kabirdham, Mungeli, Gorela-Pendra-Marwahi, Surguja, Surajpur, Korea and Balrampur districts.
The battle is to be won from the corona without stopping. There is a need to work systematically with everyone’s cooperation and team spirit. The Chief Minister said that with the aim of providing the facility of treatment to the patients with corona symptoms in the rural areas at the earliest, the Health Department should prepare the kit of necessary medicines through experts and arrangements should be made to distribute this kit through Mitanins. . The Chief Minister said that the collectors have made better arrangements at their level. It should be constantly monitored and every possible effort should be made to bring the positivity rate below 5 percent in the districts for speedy control of the corona. He said that the collector should also keep in mind that during the lockdown, the general public should not face any problem and those who move unnecessarily should be strictly prohibited. According to the requirement in rural areas, employment should also be made available to the needy through MNREGA.
Strict testing should be ensured at bus stands and inter-state borders, especially at the entry point so that no one coming from outside will be missed by the test. After testing the people coming from outside, arrangements should be made to separate the quarantine center and isolation center on the basis of the report. Those with isolation should also be monitored. For this, he gave necessary instructions for arranging quarantine centers and isolation centers in every gram panchayats. The Chief Minister said that stencils should be displayed in place of posters in the houses of Kovid infected patients and information should be displayed. He said that posters to be installed in homes are often damaged. The message of information displayed in the house should be positive and contain inspiring slogans. For this, the health department should design the message and make it available.
In the meeting, the Chief Minister said that oxygen beds, ICU beds, availability of ventilator beds, oxygen supply chain, availability and rotation of oxygen cylinders, availability of medical staff and progress of their recruitment, availability of Remedisvir and other essential medicines and CSR in all the meeting. The item reviewed the work being done in collaboration with the industrial sector and social organizations.
Health Minister Shri T.S. Singhdev said that patients with home isolation are being followed up. Collector, SP, CMHO, CEO and if possible, the public representative should contact 10 to 10 patients every day on telephone and help in their treatment.
In the meeting, Chief Secretary Mr. Amitabh Jain, Additional Chief Secretary Health, Renu G. Pillay, Additional Chief Secretary Mr. Subrata Sahu, Secretary to the Chief Minister Mr. Siddharth Komal Singh Pardeshi, Labor Secretary Mr. Ambalagan P., Commissioner of the respective divisions, I.G., District Collector and Superintendent of Police of all these 11 districts joined.
