The Jharkhand Government in its fight against novel Coronavirus on Friday received necessary medical equipments and sanitizers from Delhi. Huge consignment of medical equipment reached Ranchi from Jharkhand Bhawan in Delhi through Air India Cargo, said officials.
The medical equipment consisted 85,000 three-layered masks, 15000 N95 masks, 4986 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, 7,000 sanitisers of 500 ml bottles, 100 thermo-scanner, they added. The consignment that reached Ranchi on Friday is additional to 1200 VTM kits, 25000 N95 masks which the State Government received on March 30.
VTM is a specially designed transport system to collect and transport viruses in active form to the laboratory for isolation.
The medical equipments and sanitizers that the Jharkhand government received today is huge relief as there was severe shortage of medical equipments in State in fight against Coronavirus.
Principal Secretary, Health, Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, “The medical equipments and sanitizers has been received from Centre’s assistance and the State government has procured these equipments from order placed to various agencies.”
Meanwhile, the Jharkhand Government has set up a call centre at Jharkhand Bhavan in Delhi. The call centre having the number 08826652716 and 01126739000 will be helpful to labourers who are trapped at different parts of country.
The government has also constituted a task force headed by Chief Secretary Sukhdeo Singh. The task force will supervise the various committees formed by state government to check the spread of deadly coronavirus in state.
Meanwhile, the cumulative number of samples collected in Jharkhand till date is 691 till date, out of which the positive cases are two. The number of negative cases till date is 446, while the results of 172 cases are still awaited. There are two testing centre in State one at RIMS and other at MGM.
Moreover, the number of persons in quarantine at Home is 1,35,539, while number of person in quarantine centres is 12,384. The cumulative number of travellers under surveillance and asymptomatic is 1,531. The cumulative number of travellers completed observation of 28 days is 270. The cumulative number of travellers under surveillance & asymptomatic is 1,531. Total no. of beds in quarantine centre in the State is 37,378. The total number of beds in isolation centre in the state 2,891.
In other development state health minister Banna Gupta has attacked Centre for giving less attention to Jharkhand in its fight against Covid19.
The Minister said, “The Prime Minister had carried out video conferencing with Chief Ministers and Health minister twice, but the Prime Minister never bothered to make any query about state requirements and needs against Coronavirus. This situation is much alarming when two positive case of Covid19 has been detected in Jharkhand.”
The Health Minister also snubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to citizens to turn off their lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm on April 5 and light a candle or a diya or even use the flashlight on one’s mobile to mark the country's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The minister said that such things will not address the issue in keeping a check on coronavirus.