Each assembly segment in Mysuru city will have a dedicated task force

Mysuru: Stepping up its efforts to tackle the surge in Covid-19 cases in the city, the Mysuru district administration has constituted as many as four task forces – one each for the four assembly constituencies of Krishnaraja, Chamaraja, Narasimharaja and Chamundeshwari. Mysuru district in-charge minister ST Somashekar said that the teams would get to work from Monday.
In addition to arresting the spike in the number of cases in the city, Somashekar met with senior officials and elected representatives of the Mysuru zilla panchayat to deliberate on the measures needed to be adopted to curb the transmission of the novel coronavirus across the district.
“The MLA of the respective constituency will head the corresponding task force. Since Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait is unwell, Mysuru MP Pratap Simha has been entrusted the responsibility of overseeing the activities of the taskforce of that segment. Assistant commissioners, deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners of police, tahsildars and officials of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will be among the members of the task force, each of which will also comprise 10 volunteers,” Somashekar said.
The minister said that the members of the task force would meet every day, and discuss the necessary steps needed to be taken to combat the spread of the pandemic. “The task force will monitor the arrangements being made to supply food to infected patients receiving treatment. The officials, meanwhile, will keep a track of admission to private hospitals and ensure that infected patients are admitted to hospitals as soon as possible. We will assign three additional ambulances to each assembly constituency,” said Somashekar, adding that deputy commissioner Abhiram G Sankar had been directed to distribute booklets with telephone numbers of task force members to all residents.
Meanwhile, the Mysuru district health and family welfare department has been training nurses and healthcare personnel of private hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients. Around 20 healthcare personnel including nurses from private institutions were imparted training.
Meanwhile, Gopala Gowda Shanthaveri Memorial Hospital managing director Dr Santhrupthi HV, who also heads the Mysore Association of Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Diagnostic Centres and Clinics, announced that corona warriors who had been confirmed infected with Covid-19 would be offered free treatment.
MAHAN has been entrusted with the treatment of corona warriors by the district administration, which has selected a defunct hospital in Yadavagiri to house the infected healthcare personnel. Mysore Urban Development Authority commissioner DB Natesh has been named the hospital’s nodal officer.
Mysuru district health education officer Prakash told TOI that MAHAN had reserved 25 beds at the Yadavagiri hospital for the specific purpose. Mysuru DHO Dr R Venkatesh said that the facility, on the whole, had 100 beds.