Ensure daily change of bed linen, fresh food for patients: CM
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said bedsheets of patients in Covid hospitals must be changed daily and the patients should be given lukewarm water and hot fresh food. The chief minister was reviewing the Unlock and Covid-19 situation in the state at a meeting of top bureaucrats here on Sunday.
Talking about workers and labourers, Yogi said that the state government would make a plan to provide social security to them. He reiterated that the state government was committed to providing jobs to all of them. “That’s why the government did skill-mapping of the workers and labourers,” he said. The chief minister asked the officers concerned to speed up the work to provide ration cards to labourers to ensure food security for them.
During the meeting, principal secretary, rural development, Manoj Kumar Singh informed that over 51 lakh workers and labourers had been connected with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) jobs in villages.Yogi asked the officers concerned to get more and more jobs to women in rural UP under the Rural Livelihood Mission. “Get them jobs like making papad and incense sticks, pickling and sewing etc. Train them for jobs,” said Yogi.
Talking about medical management of Covid-19, Yogi said: “Keep all the state- established quarantine centres and community kitchen active. Doctors, nurses and paramedics should regularly take rounds of wards of both Covid and non-Covid hospitals and should also endeavour to establish a dialogue with the family members of patients. Also keep all hospitals clean and sanitized at all times.”
Those present at the meeting included chief secretary RK Tiwari, agriculture production
commissioner (APC) Alok Sinha, additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi, additional chief secretary (finance), Sanjeev Mittal, additional chief secretary (revenue), Renuka Kumar, director general of police (DGP), Hitesh C Awasthi, principal secretary (medical education), Rajneesh Dubey and principal secretary (medical health), Amit Mohan Prasad.
DIRECTIVE TO POLICE
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath asked the police and administrative officers concerned for swift and strict action against culprits in cases of crime against women, SC/ST (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes), cow slaughter and cow smuggling.