Yogi warns DMs, CMOs not to flout Covid orders
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday warned district magistrates (DMs) and chief medical officers (CMOs) against flouting government orders, rules, and directions related to Covid-19 management in the state.
On the other hand, he lauded the contribution of medical fraternity as “inspiring” in the battle against Covid-19, but also said that there were some complaints about doctors not doing the rounds of hospitals, adding that this was inappropriate.
While the CM made the point about the DMs and CMOs at his daily Covid-19 review meeting, he focused on doctors and health staff at a separate interaction with the medical fraternity.
“Ensure that every patient gets a bed. Whether the need is for oxygen, ventilator or lifesaving medicines, ensure they are provided (to the patients). Bed allocation and hospital discharge policy must be implemented effectively,” he said at the Covid review meeting.
“All district magistrates must introduce a sector system (for Covid management) and appoint sector-wise magistrates in respective districts. If any district was found violating government orders, rules, instructions (related to Covid management), the district mag
istrate and the CMO concerned will be held accountable,” he added.
He asked the chief minister’s office and chief secretary’s office to keep tabs on all the districts.
After continuous efforts, an oxygen demand-supply balance was achieved in Lucknow, Kanpur, Bareilly, Varanasi and Gorakhpur regions of the state, the chief minister said. Asking officials to improve the situation further, he said similar arrangements should be made for Agra, Mathura and the Aligarh regions.
Laying stress on speeding up work towards installation of oxygen plants in all medical colleges, he said: “Each medical college must have a liquid oxygen plant and an air separator. All hospitals in the state with a bed strength of over 100 must have their own oxygen plant. Install small oxygen generation plants at CHCs (community health centres).”
He said there were a total of 32 oxygen plants in various parts of the state and orders had been placed for installation of oxygen plants in 39 more hospitals.
“The state government is sending a proposal today to the central government for the oxygen plants that have to be set up under PM-CARES fund,” he said.
The chief minister also said, “oxygen supply in the state was rising steadily and daily”.
“The number of tankers has increased. A total of 64 tankers have been deployed for oxygen supply. Apart from this, 20 tankers are supplying oxygen directly to the hospitals. The state is also getting eight more new oxygen tankers from the central government. Besides, oxygen supply has been augmented from Jamshedpur (Jharkhand).”
He said GPS (global position system) trackers should be installed on all tankers so that they could be monitored live online.
He also called for speeding up oxygen audit work.