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Ensuring presence of adequate medical resources to fight the anticipated third wave of COVID-19 with complete preparedness, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday reviewed the medical and health facilities in Ayodhya.
The chief minister visited the Raja Dashrath Medical College in Ayodhya and took stock of the facilities available there for treatment of COVID-19 patients. He also went for on-ground inspection of the recently installed oxygen plant and reviewed the other healthcare facilities available for COVID-19 patients.
To firm up preventive measures in view of the anticipated third wave, the chief minister also asked the district administration to formulate a detailed action plan to check any further spread of the novel coronavirus.
“Medical colleges are important institutions for better, superior and special healthcare facilities. But in the last 70 years, the state had only 12 medical colleges. The present government either built or sanctioned 32 medical colleges,” the chief minister said while addressing the media, adding that there were no medical colleges in 16 districts.
"We are planning to set up medical colleges in these districts on a public-private partnership (PPP) model before December,” he said. Yogi Adityanath reiterated the importance of double masking, distancing and hand hygiene and said that the masks should seal the air passage around the nose and mouth for proper protection.
Committed to strengthening the existing and expanding the health and medical infrastructure in the state, the chief minister said, “UP has made rampant progress from getting the first Covid test conducted from the lab at National Institute of Virology in Pune in 2020 to becoming the leader by conducting maximum number of Covid tests.”
Emphasising that testing was the backbone for curbing the transmission of coronavirus as it helped in early detection of cases, their isolation and contact tracing, the chief minister asserted that the state government had been making its best efforts to expand the facilities to further enlarge the testing capacity which was already now nearly four lakh tests a day.