Restart emergency services at government hospitals: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Neha Lalchandani | TNN | Apr 15, 2020, 06:48 IST

File photo of Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: With the nationwide lockdown extended up to May 3, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said that it was time to restart emergency services in hospitals.
The services were discontinued when the first phase of the lockdown was implemented on March 25 in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus in hospitals.
On Tuesday, as he welcomed the decision to extend the lockdown for another 19 days, the CM directed officials to prepare a plan for opening up of emergency services.
Additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Awasthi said that emergency services would be started in state hospitals and those listed under the Ayushman Bharat scheme very soon.
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The CM has said that all precautions should be taken to ensure that Covid-19 does not spread in these hospitals. All health staff will be provided with personal protection equipment and N-95 masks. It has been observed that patients with serious illness of kidney, liver, heart etc often report Covic-19 symptoms later. That could put the entire medical team at risk and we need to ensure that they are fully equipped to avoid such a situation,” he said.
Awasthi added that the health and medical education departments should first provide training to their master trainers on how to prevent infections and they should then carry out training programmes at the district level. Under these programmes, daily training should be carried out for people connected with various health services like nursing staff, paramedical staff, NCC and NSS. The CM has said that farmers should face no problem in getting their harvest to the markets. He said that to ensure availability of food, it was crucial to maintain supply chains. Meanwhile, with harvesting of wheat taking place currently, the animal husbandry department has also been told to make arrangements for collecting hay from fields to feed cattle.
In light of the lockdown extension, the CM also directed officials to review the ration distribution scheme and increase procurement of food grains.
The industries department has reported that more than 5,200 manufacturing units are operational in the state currently. These include 99 units producing sanitizers, 412 units manufacturing medical equipment and medicines and 70 units 70 units producing personal protective equipment. The government has also provided financial aid of Rs 1,000 each to 12.86 lakh construction workers, 5.50 lakh daily wagers in urban areas and 3.62 lakh destitute in rural areas.