The CRPF is working on a proposal to provide WiFi facility at quarantine centres and Covid Care Centres to enhance mental peace and induce positive sentiment amongst the inmates through access to Internet.
Motivational videos by prominent speakers are also being worked out to overcome depression. Prominent personalities are being reached out to deliver motivational talks, which can be seen and heard by patients.
The diet charts of the quarantined personnel are also being proposed to include sprouts, Golden milk (turmeric milk) dry fruits and Chyawanprash.
The Covid positive patients and quarantined officers/men were already provided electric kettles, sugar cubes, hone, ginger and tea bags for consumption.
The suggestions were made at a meeting chaired by CRPF Director General AP Maheshwari earlier this month to review the arrangements made at these centres to check the spread of the Covid-19 and the preparedness to break the chain of spread of the pandemic among the ranks across the country.
The meeting was held in the backdrop of the entire 31 Battalion being quarantined hereafter significant afflictions to the disease by the paramilitary personnel.
Adequate financial powers have been granted to the Unit Commandants to procure masks, hand gloves and PPE kits but instances were discussed in the meeting wherein procurement of such items were not sufficient and as per qualitative requirements. Following this revelation, directions were issued to scrupulously follow the guidelines of the Union Health Ministry and the Inspectors General were asked to conduct random check of quality of these items so that there is no compromise with quality.
All Sector Inspector Generals have also been directed to ensure that there are sufficient Covid-19equipment like PPE kits, masks, hand gloves and sanitisers available at their units and hospitals at all establishments under them.
Till now, the CRPF has recorded 363 Covid-19 positive cases which includes two casualties due to the infection. Out of the 363, as many as 220 patients have recovered and there are 141 active cases in the paramilitary. On Monday, four new coronavirus patients were reported from the CRPF ranks in the national capital.