Ramp up supply of oxygen, ventilators: Yogi Adityanath

Virendra Singh Rawat

Lucknow / Apr 12, 2021

In the backdrop of surging Covid-19 cases, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the health officials for ensuring adequate supply of vital medical supplies including oxygen and ventilators in hospitals.

Presiding over a high level review meeting here, Yogi instructed for ensuring that L2 and L3 Covid hospitals were equipped with ventilators and high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) at all times to deal with serious patients.

Besides, essential supplies of medicines, PPE kit, N95 mask, pulse oxymeter, infrared thermometer, sanitiser, antigen kit etc should be maintained.

Meanwhile, the CM has asked for preparing an action plan to contain the spread of the disease in major cities of Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Prayagraj, wherein the state had recently imposed a cap of 50 per cent attendance in all the government and private offices.

He underlined each Covid-19 hospital in UP should comprise at least 700 beds to cater the growing number of fresh and serious cases.

Besides, the government has decided to impose ‘night/Covid curfew’ (9 pm to 6 am) in such districts, which report 100 or more fresh cases and/or where the number of active cases is above 500. Last week, UP had imposed ‘night curfew’ in eight major cities viz. Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Bareilly, Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida), Ghaziabad and Meerut.

Further, the government has announced to close government and private educational institutions, including coaching centres, till April 30 considering the scary virulent situation in the state.

Yogi had already issued orders for ramping up the daily coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000, of which 50 per cent should be RT-PCR tests, while stressing the need to intensity contact tracing of fresh cases to contain the scourge.