Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra along with Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Pradeepta Kumar Mohapatra on Monday visited Kpraput and Nabarangpur districts to review the ground situation on Covid management.
At Nabrangapur, both officials along with Collector Ajit Kumar Mishra and senior officers visited the Covid hospital, looked into functioning of ICU and also supervised construction of a new 200-bed hospital ward and establishment of an oxygen plant in District Headquarters Hospital.
It was learnt that the positivity rate in the district has been reduced from 20% to 13% during last couple of days because of shutdown and other enforcement measures. While speaking to the media, the Chief Secretary said there is a declining trend in Covid cases in the State.
Mahapatra said a new RTPCR machine in Nabarangpur would be operational shortly which has the capacity of testing around 500 samples per day and efforts are on to complete the construction of the oxygen plant and the new ward of the DHH within three to four months.
In Koraput district, both officials visited Jeypore and Koraput and took stock of the Covid situation. The Chief Secretary also reviewed the progress of the developmental works in Kotia Panchayat with Collector Abdal Akhtar and other senior officers and directed them to expedite the works.
The CS told reporters that a few days back, the daily Covid cases were 250 in the district, but now it has come down to 200.
He added that work is in progress to set up an oxygen plant each in the district hospital and the Koraput medical college and increase the number of beds to 200 in the district hospital and 650 in the medical college. He directed the district administration to complete the works within a short span of time.