UK to send medical equipment to India in fight against Covid-19
Realizing that the existing health infrastructure in the Union Territory would not able to face the situation emerging due to the increasing number of Corona patients, the J&K Government requested the Centre to immediately construct temporary hospitals for infected patients. At the request of the J&K government, the Union Home Secretary, Ajay Bhalla on Wednesday asked the UT administration to immediately identify suitable locations for the construction of two 500-bedded hospitals.
The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), which is going to construct two hospitals - one each at Srinagar and Jammu, has been asked to evaluate and submit the corresponding proposal estimates through a team of experts.
2 Oxygen Generation Plants Made Functional in North Kashmir
SRINAGAR: To meet any possible eventuality amid the ongoing onslaught of Covid-19 pandemic, Directorate of Health Services Kashmir Saturday made two oxygen plants, each with 1000 LPM capacity, functional in north-Kashmir.
The oxygen plants were made functional at SDH Kupwara and Sopore, during an extensive tour by Director Health Services Kashmir Mushtaq Ahmad on the directions of Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education Department, J&K, Atal Dullo, in the presence of Deputy Commissioner Kupwara Imam-ud-Din (at SDH Kupwara).
Both the plants have been made fully functional and serve as big relief for the inhabitants of north Kashmir amidst Covid crisis, reads a Directorate statement. Patients indicated for high flow oxygen will be treated at their door steps while as only critical patients shall be referred to tertiary care, it says.
Leh turns into a Covid hotspot
For the last week, the newly elected Jammu District Development Council (DDC) chairman, Bharat Bhushan, is aggressively campaigning in rural areas to mobilize villagers in the fight against Corona . He has, so far, approached all elected Panchayat members of the Jammu district for seeking their support to strictly implemented Covid protocols in their respective areas.
Bharat Bhushan is not an isolated case, authorities have decided to rope in all elected representatives from DDC chairpersons to Panches of the Panchayat, in the fight against Coronavirus. We have already offered every possible help to the government at this crucial time. The elected representative can play a very important role in checking the spread of the virus in the rural areas , Anil Sharma, chairman of the All J&K Panchayat Conference told
Omar Abdullah opts for safer side , after two contradictory Covid reports
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have decided to cap the Covid-19 treatment cost being charged by the private health institutes and hospitals across the Union Territory, so that common people would have access to these hospitals as well.
Amid a surge in the Coronavirus cases, Divisional Commissioner of Jammu, Dr. Raghav Langer convened a meeting of the Health and Medical Education Department over the issue of rationalization of Covid cases management in designated private health care institutions.
Taking a note of the allegation that that during the first wave of Coronavirus management of these private institutes had denied permission to common people, Divisional Commissioner directed private institutions to share regular details of bed occupancy with the Managing Director, National Health Mission (NHM), and Director of Health Services on a daily basis.
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