As Covid-19 positive cases shoot up in Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel held a meeting on Monday to discuss further ways to tackle the pandemic by adopting prevention and control measures.
He also reviewed the arrangements at quarantine centres and status of beds in hospitals in the state.
Chief Minister also held interaction by video-conferencing with AIIMS Raipur Director Dr Nitin M. Nagarkar and Bilaspur CIMS Dean Pradeep Kumar Dr Patra officials. He sought their suggestions and future steps to be taken to contain the epidemic at community level.
Health Department officials said that 141 Covid-19 care centres and 21,230 beds to treat positive cases are being arranged in the state.
Health secretary Niharika Barik Singh briefed the Chief Minister about the arrangements in different hospitals for treatment.
The Chief Minister directed the officials to make all necessary arrangements so that the migrant workers arriving in the state can be kept in quarantine centres.
He was told that at the regional level, a Dedicated Covid Hospital has 1,770 beds while in the district level the number dedicated hospital has 3470 beds. All these hospitals have ICU facilities.
Similarly, asymptomatic and those with fewer symptoms at districts have 7,234 beds. The process of establishing a Covid care unit with a bed capacity of 6,500 is underway in the state.
Senior officials of the Health Department were present during the video-conferencing.