Directing officials to form dedicated teams to check and prevent infection, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that doctors and other medical staff should be insulated from coronavirus infection.
Addressing a high-level lockdown review meeting at his official residence in Lucknow, Yogi said that better and effective efforts were needed to contain medical infection.
He directed the Health and Medical Education departments to set up dedicated teams at Lucknow and district headquarters and focus on evolving ways to check medical infection in all government and private hospitals.
The chief minister stressed on setting up a series of COVID hospitals, ensuring uninterrupted supply of oxygen in hospitals and strengthening the training of staff involved in COVID-19 treatment.
Yogi also directed officials to set up more Level-1, Level-2 and Level-3 hospitals and prepare an additional community health centre (CHC) in every district as Level-1 hospital. He said this work be undertaken on a time-bound basis and an officer be nominated to coordinate the process.
The chief minister reiterated that lockdown be followed strictly and social distancing be maintained. He expressed concern over sensitivity of Sant Kabir Nagar in terms of coronavirus infection and directed that divisional commissioner, IG and a health official be appointed as nodal officers there.
Yogi said that testing of those engaged in supply chain be done and to maintain social distancing in shelter homes and quarantine centres.
‘’Those labourers who have completed their quarantine period should be sent back home with free ration and Rs 1,000 as sustenance allowance,” he ordered.
The chief minister said that works in districts should be monitored regularly and separate officers should be appointed for smooth conduct at that level.
“It is also needed that the official machinery be made more accountable for their works,’’ he said.
Yogi said that the government had set up a committee to create jobs for migrant labourers, a ‘challenging’ task which could only be done with an action plan.
He said that work on ponds and check dams be started so that migrant labourers could be employed.
The chief minister discussed at length the return of migrant labourers stranded in other states. He said that for these labourers, the number of shelter homes be increased and they be equipped with public address system, community kitchen and toilets.
Yogi made it clear that no industry should resume its functioning where chances of infection spread were present.
In this regard, he said that micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) units should be encouraged.
The principal secretary (MSME) was asked to ramp up PPE kits supply while stressing the need of a supply chain for raw material.
The chief minister also directed the Agriculture department to publicise that there was no shortage of equipment in the state and farmers be encouraged to come to procurement centres to sell their produce.
He was apprised that 50 lakh quintals of wheat was purchased so far.