New Delhi: In a surge of COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is leaving no stone unturned to ensure better management and health facilities for people. To make sure there is no crisis of oxygen in the state, CM has given instructions to assure the availability of oxygen for the next 36 hours in all hospitals of the state.
All medical colleges, universities, and institutes in the state will be closely watched. For this, a 24-hour state-level control room is being set up in the office of the Director-General, Medical Education and Training, where the officials will keep an eye over the oxygen supply and will review the availability of the stock on a daily basis.
Not only will the oxygen supply be monitored from the control room, but any type of medical requirement will be urgently addressed.
While addressing a high-level meeting with the officials of Team-11, the Chief Minister, while taking a detailed review of the current availability of oxygen in the state, asked the officials to access the demand, review the availability of medical oxygen and maintain its adequate supply on a daily basis to ensure synergy across hospitals and the state government. Each hospital should have a minimum of 36 hours of oxygen backup, he said.
The officials from the control room will update the latest information regarding the availability of oxygen on the Google Sheet four times a day. This sheet will also be shared with the hospitals where the executive of the particular hospital will update the status of oxygen.
With the help of this Google Sheet, the officials of the Control Room will be able to solve the crisis of oxygen on an immediate basis.
The control room will also contain the numbers of the drug controller and oxygen supplier firm, which will be shared with the respective medical colleges and institutions in case of any requirement.
Hospitals to have oxygen with backup of 3 days
To make sure there is no dearth of oxygen in any medical college and institution, Principal Secretary Medical Education, Alok Kumar, said that Dr. RC Gupta has been made the nodal officer at the directorate level.
The officer will make sure that the hospitals have oxygen with a backup of at least three days. He will be also monitoring the oxygen supply and its availability at least four times a day.
In can of any problem, the officer can immediately contact higher officials of the government so that enough oxygen cylinders and other medical equipment can be ensured in the hospitals on an immediate basis.
It is worth mentioning that CM Yogi is sparing no efforts to make sure that the people of his state did not feel any kind of discomfort in getting treatment. In order to ensure adequate availability of medical personnel, COVID beds, medicines, medical equipment, and oxygen in every district of the state, the CM has ordered strict monitoring of all these.
