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Jammu : Government is continuing efforts for augmenting oxygen supply in hospital to meet the requirements in wake of rising number of cases and a large number of oxygen plants have been installed. Oxygen generation plants are under installation in many hospitals across Jammu province apart from recently commissioned. In view of rise in demand and augmentation of capacities authorities have started a comprehensive audit of oxygen requirement, supplies and availability capacities to ensure continued augmented supply. Presently sufficient oxygen supply is made available to all hospitals.
The audit of oxygen infrastructure will cover a host of parameters aimed at planned augmentation and strengthening of infrastructure. Hospital management, Mechanical Engineering Department, Legal Metrology and concerned nodal officers have started the joint audit to assess the status and future requirements.
J&K Govt initiates audit at hospitals for capacity building in augmentation of oxygen generation infra
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Government is continuing efforts for augmenting oxygen supply in hospitals to meet the requirements in wake of rising number of cases and a large number of oxygen plants have been installed.
Oxygen generation plants are under installation in many hospitals across Jammu province apart from recently commissioned. In view of rise in demand and augmentation of capacities, authorities have started a comprehensive audit of oxygen requirement, supplies and availability capacities to ensure continued augmented supply.
Presently, sufficient oxygen supply is made available to all hospitals.
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Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 5: Jammu and Kashmir today recorded highest-ever 52 COVID casualties and 4716 positive cases in a day even as 2338 patients recovered from the virus. Jammu region continued to account for more fatalities than Kashmir reporting 28 deaths and 1518 cases. Six districts in the region reported fresh positives in three digits indicating spread of the virus in semi-urban and rural belts.
Among 28 COVID casualties in Jammu region, 13 were women including a young girl, an Intelligence Bureau (IB) Inspector, a Naib Tehsildar, a woman carrying eight-month pregnancy, one mentally-deranged female and a man from Chhattisgarh. Seventeen deaths were reported in Jammu district, five Samba, two each Poonch and Rajouri and one each in Kathua and Kishtwar districts.
Tripura DM removed for high handedness in enforcing curfew at marriages
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Biplab Kumar Deb. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Agartala, May 3 : The Tripura government has removed West Tripura District Magistrate and Collector Shailesh Kumar Yadav for his alleged high handedness in dealing with the people in two marriage halls in Agartala recently amidst the night curfew imposed to curb the alarming rise in Covid-19 cases, a Minister said on Monday.
Yadav, who earlier apologised for disrupting the marriage ceremonies during the raids on April 26, in a letter to the Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar on Sunday requested to be relieved from the post of District Magistrate and Collector pending an inquiry into the incident that rocked the state and many parts of the country. Tripura Education and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath on Monday said that responding to Yadav s request he has been relieved from the post and Director Industries and Commerce Rava
Probe Ordered Into Death Of 4 Patients In ASCOMS
SRINAGAR: The J&K administration on Sunday has initiated an inquiry into the death of four people allegedly due to shortage of medical oxygen at a private hospital here, The Tribune reported quoting officials.
Four Covid patients, including a woman, undergoing treatment at ASCOMS hospital, died on Saturday morning with one family alleging that the deaths were caused due to shortage of oxygen, a claim strongly denied by the administration as well as the hospital management.
Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education department, Atal Dulloo has appointed Jammu Divisional Commissioner Raghav Langer as inquiry officer and asked him to probe into the circumstances leading to the deaths at Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) and hospital, officials said.