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UP geared up to fight third Covid wave: Sehgal
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Vivek Tripathi | 18 May, 2021
After dealing with the second Covid wave successfully, the Uttar Pradesh
government is gearing up to stop the third wave of the pandemic. For
this, not only beds are being increased in hospitals, but oxygen
concentrators have also been arranged in rural areas.
Apart
from this, tests are being conducted door-to-door by sending teams, as a
result of which UP overcame the second wave successfully and now
preparations are afoot to tackle the third wave. Additional Chief
Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Information, Navneet Sehgal said this in an
exclusive interview with IANS.
Sehgal said that dedicated
hospitals for children are being set up in case they get infected. Our
entire team is working day and night to ensure that children do not get
infected or if they get infections, immediate treatment is made
available, he added.
The senior IAS officer said, "Before the
third wave comes, the government is all geared up to stop it. For this,
dedicated hospitals for women and children are being set up in every
district. Paediatric ICUs are being made available, 97,000 monitoring
committees have been sent to all the villages which are doing
door-to-door screening. For this, 10 lakh medical kits have also been
provided. The number of beds has been increased everywhere depending on
the instructions of the Chief Minister. Since March, more than 11,000
beds have been made available in the medical colleges and 18,000 in
district hospitals, oxygen concentrators are also being arranged for
each community health centre (CHC). At least 21,000 concentrators have
been sent -- 20 each to each CHC. The state government is fully prepared
to deal with any situation. We are recruiting staff, about 700 have
been recruited this month only."
Sehgal said, "the vaccination
drive is going on at a fast pace. So far, 1,16,80,212 people have been
given the first dose, and 32,66,076 were given the second dose of the
vaccine. A total of 1,49,46,288 vaccines have already been administered.
Vaccines have also been administered to 4,14,329 people in the age
group of 18-44 years. UP has also floated a global tender for the
vaccine".
Sehgal said that it is due to the efforts of the UP
government that house-to-house survey was conducted to trace, test and
treat Covid patients. It was because of this that the Covid cases which
were 38,055 on April 24 have now come down to below 10,000. More than
four and a half crore RT-PCR tests were done. Three lakh tests are
carried out everyday to identify the infected persons, he said.
In
response to a question, Sehgal said that a special drive was carried
out to ensure that infections do not spread in rural areas. Members of
the monitoring committees are going from village to village to identify
persons with symptoms and are giving medical kits immediately. The RRT
(Rapid Response Team) is also carrying out antigen tests if the symptoms
persist.
On the question of the number of deaths not coming down
despite a fall in the infection rate, Sehgal said that it takes a week
or ten days for this to happen. Deaths will also come down in the days
to come, he said.
When asked how the situation came to this pass
and where the government failed, as compared to the first peak, Sehgal
said that this time the infections are 30 to 50 times more. It came like
a wildfire, more powerful this time engulfing the youths as well.
People think of slight fever as a minor issue, that it will be cured
soon. This is a misconception, he said. "People should not put their
lives in danger by doing things like this. So, now people are being
motivated to go to the hospital and get themselves examined. That is why
teams have been sent in the rural areas."
Sehgal said, "we are
supplying 1000 tonnes of oxygen every day. The hospitals here have
adequate medical gas. Initially there was a shortage, but the situation
is under control now. Plants have been set up in 370 government
hospitals which are producing oxygen."
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