Asking officials to be on their toes to control the exponential spread of Covid-19 disease across the State, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath clarified that neither his Government will impose a lockdown nor let the people die of misery.
“It is the responsibility of the officers to ensure that there is no shortage of hospital beds for the patients. The people should get all facilities and there should be no shortage of essential items in the market,” CM said while addressing officials in the meeting here on Monday.
Expressing anger over private hospitals and labs fleecing people by charging more than the prescribed rate, he directed officials to take action against them. He said that nobody will be allowed to take advantage of the helplessness of the people.
“Stop it strictly. Incorrect information will result in harsh action against the guilty,” he said and directed officials to takeover such hospitals. “Investigation report should not be delayed and this should be communicated to the labs,” he said.
He has emphasized on the expansion of lab and testing capabilities. Instructions have been given to increase the test capacity of RTPCR to 70 percent.
He said: “Our priority is to implement an effective strategy to stop the spread of Covid-19. We will have to fight the pandemic vigorously with full preparation as there is no scope for any sort of negligence in this fight.”
Praising his government’s efforts to control the spread of the virus last year, he said that similar to the last year we will have to fight this war with great strength. For the same, we will have to increase the beds in L2 (with oxygen facility) and L3 (with ventilators) hospitals in sufficient quantity, he said
Yogi Adityanath has also instructed the officials to dedicate half of the 108 ambulance service for COVID-19 patients and the remaining half for non-COVID cases. He has set the response time for these ambulances at 15 minutes. He has laid emphasis on making the Integrated Command and Control Center the focal point of the entire fight and monitoring its activity one by one.
Later addressing reporters Additional Chief Secretary Information Navneet Sehgal appealed to people not to go to crowded areas and wear masks when they leave the house.”Arrangements are being made to carry out a strategy to control the infection. The number of beds has increased apart from this, there is an adequate system of oxygen in the state. He has asked people not to get swayed by any rumors,” he said.
He said that since April 11, 'Teeka Utsav' was being celebrated in 6000 centers, which has been increased to 8000 centers. So far, the first dose of vaccine has been given to 75.76 lakh people and out of the first dose, 12.70 lakh people have been given the second dose of vaccine. Thus, a total of 88 lakh vaccine doses have been given to people.
Sehgal said there are 23,937 containment zones in the state. He has advised the people to cooperate with the government machinery and follow the restrictions imposed by them.
Additional Chief Secretary Medical and Health Amit Mohan Prasad said the capacity of testing has been increased. A total of 1,93,379 samples were done in the last one day of which 89,000 samples have been tested through RTPCR.