There has been a steady increase in the recovery rate of infected patients and gradual decline in fatality rate in Haryana, figures released on Tuesday said.
The figures were revealed during a video-conference held under the Chairpersonship of Haryana Chief Secretary Keshni Anand Arora with Dr VK Paul, Professor, Member, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India and officers of Government of Haryana on COVID-19 status in the State.
The Chief Secretary said that lockdown and containment measures have been enforced effectively in the State while also ensuring that the economic activity goes on unaffected.
While giving a presentation the State Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare Rajeev Arora said that in the month of June the recovery rate was 44.78 per cent which has improved to 77.46 per cent by July-end and is higher than the national recovery rate of 63.53 percent.
He informed the officers during the presentation that there was a decline in the fatality rate as well. Also, the state has been progressively increasing the number of tests conducted both under Rapid Antigen Test as well as RT-PCR, and during June-July the number of tests conducted in the State have doubled while the tests per million population have reached a figure of 21,157. The Positivity Rate in the State has gone down to 5.75 per cent. The logistics and medical infrastructure of the state is in place as the testing capacity has been increased to 15,000 tests per day and more testing laboratories would be established to further augment the testing capability. Sero-epidemiological survey is also being conducted and will be strengthened further.
He said that the state has 10,630 isolation beds, sufficient supply of medicines, 1,080 ventilators etc. Moreover, plasma therapy is also being administered for treatment of COVID-19 patients and is being strengthened further. Certain good practices, including intensive surveys of vulnerable sections of people, monitoring of cases under home isolation through Medical Colleges in the State, etc. are being followed to ensure better management of the pandemic. Listing out the best practices followed across the districts in the state Arora said that effective contact tracing through a pre-designed format within 72 hours was being done in Gurugram, also an alliance between hospitals and hotels was there in districts like Gurugram and Faridabad to ensure proper facilities. Around 403 ambulances were functional and more were hired on the basis of need and 956 regular doctors and 206 AYUSH Medical officers were recruited in view of the pandemic. Also, Itihas portal was used for the identification of emerging hospitals.
Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education and Research, Haryana Alok Nigam stated that the medical institutions are well equipped with the necessary infrastructure & equipments and retired medical professionals are being hired to augment human resource requirements as per need.