Steps should be taken to ensure that home isolation is observed as per the rules and that home isolation kits are provided to all soon. Since some relaxation will be provided at the state’s border from Monday to those entering the State, the number of people arriving will increase. Further, the festive season will commence after a month which will also result in increased movement.
Considering this, all district magistrates should ensure necessary arrangements. The chief secretary Om Prakash said this while chairing a video conference with all district magistrates and officials of the health department regarding Covid-19.
He directed all the DMs to arrange for adequate manpower along with oxygen beds, ICUs and ventilators in hospitals. If a serious patient is to be referred, the hospital concerned should also be informed so that its staff can be ready in advance.
The chief secretary said that complaints are being received from people in Dehradun that samples are turning out positive in some private labs while the samples of the same persons are coming out negative in government hospitals. It is also being stated that about 50 per cent of persons getting tested in the private labs in Dehradun are being reported positive.
He directed the Dehradun DM to get some of the people who have tested positive in private labs, tested in government hospitals.Strict action should be taken in case any private lab is providing wrong results. He further directed all the DMs to hire final year students of nursing colleges to increase the strength of nursing staff. They should be paid according to the NHM standards. Further, action should be taken consistently against those violating social distancing and not wearing masks in public, he stressed.