UP to develop mobile app for Covid management

Virendra Singh Rawat

Lucknow / May 27, 2021

 

Even as the Covid-19 second wave is on a downward trajectory in Uttar Pradesh, the state government will now develop a user friendly mobile app to facilitate easy location of designated hospitals.

 

While government hospitals will also be geo-mapped, the mobile app will provide vital information regarding the number of doctors and paramedical staff, availability of drugs, medical infrastructure and location of these health care centres.

 

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the state Covid-19 response team, referred to as ‘Team 9’, to prepare a database of all government run primary health centres (PHC), community health centres (CHC) and district hospitals.

 

“Our strategy of ‘test, trace and tread’ has proved to be effective against coronavirus. We are not only setting new record in the daily number of sample testing, but the number of cases is dwindling fast while the recovery rate is improving significantly,” he noted.

 

Meanwhile, the government is ramping up medical infrastructure for the treatment of black fungus patients. The state has mandated Lucknow-based Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) experts to monitor such cases in various government hospitals in Lucknow, Meerut, Gorakhpur, Varanasi etc.

 

The CM has ordered the state medical education department to ensure there was no shortage of Covid related drugs. At the same time, the state has adopted a proactive policy to deal with the exigency of possible third wave of Covid-19 as well. All 58 medical colleges in UP have been directed to set up 150 bed dedicated critical care units/wards each on priority.

 

So far, more than 1.3 million people in the 18-45 years bracket have been vaccinated in 23 districts of UP. From June 1, the vaccination drive for the category would cover all 75 districts. The state has floated a global tender to procure 40 million doses for universal inoculation.