Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 4 (ANI): Central government has rejected the proposal of Air Ambulance sent by the Uttarakhand government,in case of disaster and emergency, under the National Health Mission (NHM), said State Health Secretary Amit Negi on Thursday.
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand has reported 42 per cent Covid deaths that were missed earlier, giving rise to suspicions of underreporting of coronavirus fatalities in the state.
These are now being reported as backlog deaths for the last six days in the family health bulletin of the state government.
Of the total 923 deaths reported last week in the daily Covid bulletin, 384 of them are backlog deaths , accounting for 42 per cent deaths due to the virus.
A doctor from the state health department on the condition of anonymity said, After 65 deaths were discovered unreported in Haridwar by a private hospital, notices were served. Following this, everyone is on alert now. No such thing happened in the first wave.
Uttarakhand Government Issues SOPs To Prevent Black Marketing Of Black Fungus Medicine Uttarakhand Government Issues SOPs To Prevent Black Marketing Of Black Fungus Medicine The drug will be available only in dedicated Covid-19 Health Care Center Medical Colleges and only in state government institutions, it said.
42 Black Fungus cases were reported at AIIMS in Rishikesh on May 19. (Representational image).
Dehradun (Uttarakhand):
The Uttarakhand government has issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to prevent the black marketing of Black Fungus medicine keeping in view cases of the disease being reported across the country. The Uttarakhand government has issued SOPs for the prevention and black marketing of Amphotericin B, a Black Fungus medicine, according to the rule. The drug will be available only in dedicated Covid-19 Health Care Center Medical Colleges and only in state government institutions , informed the official release.
Nine hill districts in Uttarakhand have registered more Covid-19 deaths in May this year alone compared to the whole period from March 15, 2020 to April 30, 2021.
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DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand with just 0.8% population of India, accounted for 2.73% of deaths in the country in the last seven days.
In the last seven days of April 2021, a total of 22,121 deaths were recorded in India out of which 603 were from Uttarakhand.
Anoop Nautiyal, an analyst based in Dehradun whose Social Development for Communities has been analysing data since March 2020 when the first-ever case was detected in Uttarakhand said, Our population is just 0.8% of this country but in last 7 days in April we had 2.73% of deaths in India. This is a very high share. We should be careful and take more stringent measures to curb the spread.