Health and Medical Education departments to make special action plan for Ghaziabad and Gautambudh Nagar districts

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Ji has directed the Health and
Medical Education departments to make special action plan for Ghaziabad and
Gautambudh Nagar districts. More efforts are required to contain Covid-19 and
improve health services in these two districts, he said while presiding over a highlevel Unlock review meeting here at his official residence on Saturday.
He said that a team of health official should be sent to Ghaziabad district to camp
there. This team should make efforts to improve the health services in the Covid
hospitals and provide best services to the Corona patients. He also directed to send
similar team to Bulandshahr district.
The CM said the clear guidelines should be issued for government as well as
private hospitals to keep TruNAT machines functional. He said that the Covid testings
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should be ramped up to more than 25,000 through RTPCR testing method. The CM
said that the testings should be substantially increased by the use of RTPCR method,
TruNAT machines and Rapid Antigen test.
He directed to maintain proper arrangements in the medical colleges and
ensure that senior doctors take regular rounds. He asked to nominate a separate
officer for monitoring of health services in the 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 that the relatives of the patients admitted in
the Covid hospitals should be informed of the condition of the latter on a regular
basis. For this, the ward in-charge should make arrangement to inform on telephone.
He instructed to set up Covid Help Desk in every hospital of the Health department.
The CM directed to make quarantine and screening facilities for the travellers
coming by international flights. Similarly, screening facilities should be set up at
railway and bus stations also. He asked to exercise all caution to control the spread of
infection. He also directed to pay proper attention to the training of
medical personnel for protection from medical infection. Also, the efforts to insulate
PAC battalions from the infection should be continued.
The CM asked to ensure social distancing norms along with better sanitation in
public places. He said that door step delivery mechanism should be ensured in the
containment zones for supply of essentials. He said that special communicable
disease control campaign has been launched. All concerned departments should
coordinate to make it success.
The Chief Minister asked 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. He asked to keep an eye over the movement of locusts and ensure
arrangements for control. He also emphasised to make effective steps to augment GST
collection.
Those present in the meeting included the Chief Secretary Shri R.K.
Tiwari, Agriculture Production Commissioner Shri Alok Sinha, Infrastructure and
Industrial Development Commissioner Shri Alok Tandon, Additional Chief Secretary
Home and Information Shri Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Director General of Police Shri
Hitesh C. Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary Finance Shri Sanjeev Mittal, Additional
Chief Secretary Revenue Mrs. Renuka Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary Health Shri
Amit Mohan Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary Medical Education Shri Rajneesh
Dubey, Additional Chief Secretary MSME Shri Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief
Secretary Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Shri Manoj Kumar Singh, Additional
Chief Secretary Agriculture Shri Devesh Chaturvedi, Additional Chief Secretary to
Chief Minister Shri S.P. Goyal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Shri Sanjay Prasad,
Secretary to Chief Minister Shri Alok Kumar, Director Information Shri Shishir and
other senior officers.