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In view of infectious ases, including dengue, g reported from different s of the state, chief minister Adityanath on Friday ted the officials concerned rry out a statewide cleanliand sanitisation drive from ember 5 (Sunday) and a wide surveillance for infecdiseases from September 7 sday). gi also asked for using the d and Covid isolation beds reating patients of dengue also those in grip of other infections. Chief minister ed these directives at the d-19 review meeting and d the nodal officers inted for districts to take ge of the cleanliness and isation drive in their respecdistricts. He also instructed
to monitor situations in districts affected by heavy rain and flood and supervise relief measures there.
“The health department should launch a statewide surveillance from September 7 with the help of Asha and Anganwadi workers and associated staff. The health workers should go door to door to trace people with fever or Covid like symptoms. Also, make a list of such people over 45 years of age who have still not taken their first dose of vaccine. Encourage them to get their doses,” Yogi said.
“Not a single fresh case of Covid infection was detected in 64 districts of the state in the last 24 hours while 11 districts reported fresh cases in single digit. The state is doing 2.5 lakh Covid sample tests every day on an average and the daily positivity rate is 0.01%. The recovery rate has gone up further to 98.7%. At present, the state has 239 active cases of Covid-19,” he said.“only 18 fresh Covid cases were reported through the tests done in the last 24 hours while 21 patients recovered during this period,” Yogi added. Talking about vaccination, CM said on Thursday 16.26 lakh doses of Covid vaccine were administered taking the total doses administered so far to 7.58 crore.
He said the state government will organise ‘Gareeb Kalyan Mela’ (fairs for the welfare of poor) on September 25 in all 826 development blocks in the state. The meal would entail distribution of artificial limbs and aids to differently abled and linking potential beneficiaries with pension, home, self-employment and other schemes.
Check cost of construction material
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said the state government had learnt that various construction material such as cement, sand, coarse sand, ballast and other such items were being sold at escalated prices.
Mathura district magistrate Navneet Singh Chahal has constituted half-a- dozen medical teams after 12 fever deaths were recorded in August in Mathura where Koh village in the district’s Farah area was the worst affected with almost half the fatalities, officials said on Friday. The medical teams would be rushed to the affected areas on complaints about cases of fever.
The move comes at a time when death toll due to dengue and viral fever has climbed to 50 in Firozabad district of western Uttar Pradesh. “There were 12 deaths in August in Mathura district and the worst affected was Koh village in Farah area of Mathura district where about half of the deaths took place,” Mathura’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Bhoodev said. “The cause of deaths was fever originating because of scrub typhus and leptospirosis, a rare bacterial infection in Mathura. There are cases of dengue, too, but there are no deaths reported in Mathura because of dengue,” Dr Bhoodev said.
He claimed that there were no deaths due to fever in Mathura on Friday.
The Mathura district magistrate also directed officials to upgrade arrangements at the community health centres (CHCS) and primary health centres (PHC) in Mathura and asked the health department to remain extra cautious in case children were afflicted with fever. He issued the directives at a meeting on Thursday evening.
“The medical officer in charge (MOIC) at PHC and CHC are being asked to upgrade medical facilities. All government hospitals are being asked to update their services and a drive is being undertaken to provide Ayushman Card to all those eligible in the village,” the Mathura DM said during the meeting.