Jai Ram Thakur briefs Union Health Minister about steps taken to tackle COVID-19

Urges to provide more ventilators

5 Dariya News

Shimla 24-Apr-2020

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur in a meeting through video conference meeting with the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan today apprised about various steps being taken by the state government to tackle the menace of coronavirus effectively.  He said that there were six districts in the State, where no case has been reported of COVID-19.The Chief Minister said that as many as 8847 persons had been kept under surveillance in the state, out of which 5637 people had completed 28 days of necessary surveillance period whereas 3210 people were still under observation. He said that 3994 persons had so far been investigated for coronavirus in the State.Jai Ram Thakur said that presently, reports of 40 people have been found positive out of which 18 persons have been discharged after being found negative. Besides this, four persons have gone for treatment outside the State and one person has died. He said that remaining 17 persons were under treatment in the hospitals of the State. He said that curfew had been imposed in the State so that people do not come out un-necessarily to the markets besides motivating them to maintain social distancing to break the chain of coronavirus.  He said that hotspots of coronavirus in the State had been sealed to avoid spread of virus.

The Chief Minister said that government had established about 9200 quarantine beds in 183 health institutions of the State. He urged the Union Health Minister to provide more ventilators for the State to meet out any emergent situation.Jai Ram Thakur said that investigation of samples for COVID-19 were being done at four places viz. IGMC, Shimla, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda,  IHBT, Palampur in Kangra district and Central Research Institute, Kasauli in district Solan.Chief Minister said that the state government had notified five hospitals as dedicated hospitals for COVID-19 including Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College, Nerchowk, district Mandi, ESI Hospital, Katha Baddi in Solan district, Charitable hospital Bhota in district Hamirpur, Civil Hospital, Sarahan, in district Sirmaur and Agarwal hospital, Jwalamukhi, district Kangra. Jai Ram Thakur said that under Active Case Finding Campaign launched in the State, over 70 lakh people had been covered and out of these about 10,000 persons had been identified with influenza like illness (ILI) symptoms, who were being examined.Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj and Political Advisor to Chief Minister Trilok Jamwal were also present on the occasion.