Adequate medicines, oxygen beds available in Himachal: Chief Minister

Shimla, April 16

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur today said that there was adequate availability of medicines and oxygen beds in the state. He chaired a high-level meeting here to review the Covid-19 situation and took stock of various arrangements.

“There is adequate availability of medicines, oxygen beds, masks and sanitisers in the state,” he said. He directed the Health Department to enhance the capacity of oxygen beds in the hospitals.

Thakur said that so far, 13,60,794 persons had been screened for Covid through RT-PCR, rapid antigen tests, True-Nat and CV-Nat and the testing rate in the state was 194,399 persons per 10 lakh.

He said that he was touring various districts to take stock of the situation. Besides, he was communicating with the representatives of PRIs, urban local bodies and various organisations to make efforts to bring public awareness regarding prevention of the pandemic at the grass-roots level. He added it was important to increase the participation of the public representatives to break the chain of the virus.

Thakur said along with a dedicated helpline for Covid-19 patients in home isolation, the use of e-Sanjeevani and telephone number 104 was being encouraged. He instructed the doctors to contact Covid patients in home isolation for counselling. — TNS