Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that at least 1,000 ICU beds should be arranged in super speciality hospitals of Lucknow and tehsil and thana diwas should be resumed to resolve people’s problems.
“Tehsil and thana diwas should commence following Covid guidelines to solve the problems of the people. SDM, police circle officer and tehsildar should attend to the problems of their areas,” Yogi said, adding that qualitative disposal of people’s problems was the key to the success of tehsil and thana diwas.
Presiding over an Unlock review meeting at the Lok Bhawan here on Tuesday, the chief minister said that medical employees should be protected from infection and asked officials to add 1,000 ICU beds in SGPGI Lucknow, RML Institute of Medical Sciences and KGMU.
He also asked officials to conduct Covid tests of all people in containment zones.
Yogi was particularly happy over UP jumping to second rank in Ease of Doing Business, and said that an action plan be prepared for ‘Ease of Living’ to make living standard of the people better.
Asking officials to make extra efforts to augment goods and services tax (GST) collection in the state, the chief minister said that an action plan was required for this. He said that more and more traders be registered for GST.
The chief minister directed officials to offer all help to investors and entrepreneurs and take up their problems for solution in a time-bound manner. Yogi said he himself would interact with them in the meeting of Udyog Bandhu.
Yogi asked officials to organise training programmes for zero-budget agriculture and said that families of malnutritioned children be provided cows from shelters under special scheme. He asked the officials to strengthen milk samitis to expand the dairy sector.
The chief minister said that under the Smart City project of the Centre, 10 cities were being developed while seven cities were being developed at the state level. He asked officials to expedite the progress of Smart City projects as well as AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) scheme and directed the Public Works Department (PWD) to make roads free of potholes.
He said that Covid tests should be done on all people in containment zones and people be asked to strictly follow protection guidelines of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said on Tuesday that 1.43 lakh samples were tested on Monday, taking the number of total Covid tests done so far to 67.73 lakh.
He said that there were 33,386 positive asymptomatic patients in home isolation.
“Till date, a total of 1.31 lakh patients preferred home isolation and out of them 98,591 recovered. Besides, there are 3,105 people in private hospitals, 234 in semi-paid hotels and rest in government-run Covid hospitals,” he said.
Prasad said that under surveillance and contact tracing , over 3.29 lakh health department teams reached 93,663 areas and visited 2.20 crore houses and checked and contacted over 11.03 crore people.
The additional chief secretary further said that the state had decided to go for a month-long drive against water and vector-borne diseases like dengue, swine flu, encephalitis, chikungunya and others occurring during October.
Earlier in August, the government had gone for a drive against water and vector-borne diseases.