Noida DM directs online issue of death certificates in a meeting with RWAs

NOIDA: In an online meeting with Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Associations (FONRWA) on Tuesday, Suhas LY district magistrate (DM) of GB Nagar directed the district health department to facilitate online death certificates after submission of requisite documents from Antim Niwas sector 94, hospital certificate and residence proof letter from RWA to avoid residents making the rounds of CMO office.
The meeting that was attended by over 50 RWAs also had the DM direct a single point person contact in sector nigrani committees to coordinate with the district health and administration departments for Covid care measures.
On demand raised by RWAs for medicines associated with black fungus to be arranged at the district level, the DM maintained that for the time being, the state government order of procuring the same form Meerut will continue. He also hinted at an unlock expected from next week subject to government order.
“Many residents face the problem of procuring a death certificate after having lost a family member to Covid pandemic due to the lockdown. While the DM directed for an online facility to issue the death certificate post submission of all necessary documents, we have intimated that on part of the RWA, we can only provide a certificate confirming the deceased as a resident of the sector. To declare the death of the deceased in home isolation or admitted in hospital, only a qualified medical practitioner, concerned hospital where he died or the district health department should issue the necessary document/certificate,” said Sanjeev Kumar, vice president FONRWA.
Also, given the spate of cases of black fungus in GB Nagar, many RWAs demanded that all concerned medicines related to the disease be made available at the district level so that a resident does not have to make repeat visits to Meerut to procure them. “Even the demand for adequate supply of the medicine related to black fungus was raised on the matter in the meeting. But the DM maintained that for now, the process initiated by the state government to procure the medicine from Meerut will continue. For this, all procedures of raising the demand for the medicine from the chief medical officer’s office will have to be followed,” said Yogendra Sharma president FONRWA.
The DM however assured the residents that the district is preparing all necessary infrastructure to deal with a prospective third wave of the pandemic.
While almost all RWAs raised the demand for increased vaccination, the district magistrate maintained that “all Covid protocols should be followed at the vaccination centres and only those residents should come to the centres who are to be vaccinated. Unnecessary crowding should be avoided,” he said.
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