State government determined to reduce Covid mortality rate to one per cent in city: Chief secretary

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Kanpur: Following the surge in Covid-19 related deaths being recorded these days in the city, the state government is determined to reduce the mortality rate up to one per cent in Kanpur, said UP chief secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari.
Addressing a media conference here on Sunday evening, he said that the target was zero mortality rate from coronavirus. “To achieve the target, the health department, the medical college and the district administration will have to act together with one force. There is a need to strengthen contact tracing and surveillance and for this purpose surveillance teams were increased from 462 to 1008”, Tiwari said.
He said for admitting corona patients in hospitals and testing their contact tracing, including family members, the integrated command control would work round the clock which would be supervised daily for two hours by the district magistrate and the chief medical officer.
Both the government and the private labs had been directed to inform all positive cases to the district magistrate and the CMO who would decide to shift the patient within two hours at level-1,-2 and 3 hospitals as per the condition of a patient, he added.
The chief secretary said from Sunday the capacity of sample testing has been doubled and corona mobile units have also been pressed in the city to achieve the target of 3000 sample testing. The mobile vans would be stationed at four places of the city and their main focus would be on door- to-door survey and contact tracing.
In a specific direction, the chief secretary said that serious patients, suffering from high blood pressure, kidney or heart problems, should be covered under the antigen test and surveillance teams should be directed to admit them to hospitals without any delay.
Earlier in the meeting with the officials of district administration and health department here on Saturday, he reprimanded them for attending the meeting without any preparation. He said that the report of vice- principal of the GSVM medical college Prof Richa Giri gave clear indication that without any doing screening and planning, patients had been sent to the Covid hospital. Even no screening of serious and precarious patients had been done, he added.
He was surprised to know that under door- to-door survey, only one team was collecting data of five houses per day. He asked the officials to fix the target of 40 houses per day.