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Ghaziabad: Two years after taking over the helm of the administration in Ghaziabad, district magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey was on Friday transferred to Jhansi as the divisional commissioner. RK Singh, who has previously served as the Ghaziabad municipal commissioner and is currently the Moradabad DM, will take Pandey’s place. The takeover of duties is expected to happen over the weekend, TOI has learnt.
Originally from Ayodhya, RK Singh is not new to the city. He joined as a PCS officer in 1994 and was promoted to IAS in 2010. Apart from Ghaziabad, he has previously served as the vice-chairman of Hapur-Pilkhua Development Authority and the additional CEO of the Yamuna Expressway Authority. Singh has been posted as Moradabad DM for the past four years.
Ghaziabad: At a time when ICU and oxygen beds are hard to find, private hospitals in the district have reported several vacant ones over the past three days. The reason, officials say, is a crackdown by the administration on private Covid facilities, most of which have been claiming full occupancy.
According to official data, there are 51 Covid hospitals in the district, including five government ones. Together, these facilities have 3,141 Covid beds, including 747 ICU beds. Till May 8, almost all ICU beds were full and only a few oxygen beds were available in some hospitals. But following a recent audit and subsequent meetings with hospital representatives, several vacant critical care beds were found.
A notice put up at the community health centre in Bisrakh says vaccination of the 18+ will take place according to the allocated date and slot
NOIDA: After its order that those in the 18-44 age group coming for vaccines to government sites would have to produce a UP identity card as address proof drew criticism and stoked fears that many people in a migrant hub like NCR would become ineligible, UP’s health department on Monday expanded the list of documents that will be accepted.
The address proof need not just be an Aadhaar card, driving licence, voter ID or passport. Lease or rent agreements, electricity bills, bank passbooks, along with a government-approved photo-identification card will suffice.
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GHAZIABAD: To deal with the oxygen requirement of Covid-19 patients in home isolation, the district administration has urged the residents’ bodies to arrange for cylinders collectively and provide them for refilling, instead of running to refilling centres individually. Officials said they would get them refilled and return to RWAs within 36-48 hours. In many cases, the kin of patients are not getting oxygen on time.
State-appointed nodal officer Senthil Pandian C, who held a meeting in this regard on Monday, said a collection and distribution point would be created in each of the five zones for this purpose, where RWAs can deposit their oxygen cylinders for refilling.