Highlights
- Delhi: Some MCD hospitals will be converted into dedicated COVID hospitals
- 10,000-bed COVID Centre at Chhatarpur will be strengthened further: Mr Shah
- Central government will provide essential health equipment to Delhi
New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday (November 15) announced several measures, including doubling of RT-PCR tests and strengthening medical infrastructure to bring under control Delhi’s rising number of coronavirus cases. The decisions were announced by Mr Shah after he chaired a meeting to review the coronavirus situation in the national capital. Union health minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain had also participated in the meet at North Block today (November 15).
Taking to Twitter, the home minister talked about the various measures to be implemented.
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The Home Minister said that some MCD hospitals will be converted into dedicated COVID hospitals to treat patients with mild symptoms.
“Today many directions were given in the meeting. 1- RT-PCR tests will be doubled in Delhi. 2- In Delhi, mobile testing vans of the ICMR of health ministry will be deployed in places vulnerable to Covid-19 spread by using maximum capacity of labs,” Mr Shah tweeted.
आज बैठक में विभिन्न निर्देश दिये।
1) सर्वप्रथम दिल्ली में RT-PCR टेस्ट में दो-गुना वृद्धि की जाएगी।
2) दिल्ली में लैबों की क्षमता का अधिक से अधिक उपयोग करके, जहां कोविड होने का खतरा ज़्यादा है, वहां स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय तथा ICMR की मोबाइल टेस्टिंग वैनों को तैनात किया जाएगा।
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 15, 2020
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He said that capacity of hospitals in Delhi and other medical infrastructure should be increased.
In this direction, 250 to 300 ICU beds will be included in DRDO COVID Hospital located in Dhaula Kuan which was set up in May so that serious COVID-19 patients can be treated there, the union minister said.
3) दिल्ली में अस्पतालों की क्षमता तथा अन्य मेडिकल इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर की उपलब्धता में वृद्धि की जानी चाहिए।
इसी दिशा में मई में बनाए गये धौला कुआं स्थित DRDO के कोविड अस्पताल में 250 से300 ICU बेड और शामिल किए जाएंगे, जिसे गम्भीर कोविड रोगियों का वहाँ इलाज किया जा सके।
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 15, 2020
Mr Shah said that 10,000-bed COVID Centre at Chhatarpur will be strengthened further and the number of beds with oxygen facility will be increased.
Dedicated teams will visit all private hospitals to check the availability of COVID -19 related medical infrastructure and to inspect the condition of patients, he said.
Review of all containment measures like establishment of containment zones, contact tracts, quarantine and screening. Especially those people who are at high risk of contracting COVID and it should be reviewed continuously to ensure no lacuna in implementing containment measures, he tweeted.
Additional doctors and paramedical staff of CAPF will be deployed in the national capital and will soon be airlifted to Delhi.
In today’s meeting Directions were given to focus on tracking COVID -19 patients who are in home isolation and shifting them to COVID hospitals if they need immediate medical facility so that more and more lives can be saved, he tweeted.
Mr Shah said that direction has been given to prepare a protocol for plasma donation and transfusion to affected persons. For this, he said, a high-level committee headed by Dr VK Paul, AIIMS Director and DG ICMR will submit a report on it soon.
10) गंभीर कोरोना मामलों में प्लाज्मा डोनेशन और प्रभावित व्यक्तियों को प्लाज्मा प्रदान किए जाने के लिए प्रोटोकॉल तैयार करने के निर्देश दिए।
डॉ. वी के पॉल, निदेशक एम्स और महानिदेशक ICMR के नेतृत्व में एक उच्च स्तरीय समिति इसपर जल्द ही रिपोर्ट देगी।
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 15, 2020
Additionally, the Central Government will provide oxygen cylinders, High Flow Nasal Cannula and all other essential health equipment to Delhi.
Safety is the only solution to coronavirus. Directions were given to create awareness among people about COVID-19 behaviour and to make a concrete dialogue strategy in Delhi to provide information about negative impact in the long run, Mr Shah tweeted.
12) सुरक्षा ही कोरोना का एक मात्र उपाय है, इसलिए लोगों को COVID-19 Behaviour के बारे में बताने तथा लंबे समय में मेडिकल और स्वास्थ्य मानदंडों पर इससे पड़ने वाले नकारात्मक प्रभाव के बारे में जानकारी देने के लिए दिल्ली में ठोस संवाद कार्यनीति होनी चाहिए। इसके लिए भी निर्देश दिए।
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 15, 2020
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