UP: CMS Directive Beds will be increased in hospitals in six cities

Wed Aug 12 10:16:14 IST 2020

Lucknow: CM Yogi Adityanath of the country's largest state UP has given special instructions to increase beds in Level-2 and Level-3 Corona Hospitals of Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Bareilly, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur and Varanasi. He has asked the Integrated Command and Control Center of the cities to get health information through phone by regular communication with every citizen living in home isolation.

He has also asked to use the CM helpline in it. He was reviewing the unlocked arrangements at a high-level meeting at his government residence on Tuesday. CM has asked for speeding up the process for surveillance arrangements and effective implementation of quality, contact tracing, door-to-door survey activities and mandatory use of masks. CM Yogi has instructed the medical and police department personnel to do all the necessary management to keep them safe from infection.

CM Yogi said that the Union Ministry of Health's online OPD service should promote e-Sanjeevani in a big way, so that people can get profit from it. It is said that adopting cleanliness helps in controlling corona and communicable diseases. The meeting was attended by Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh, Minister of State for Health Atul Garg, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner Alok Tandon, Agriculture Production Commissioner Alok Sinha, Additional Cheif Secretary Finance Sanjeev Mittal, Additional Chief Secretary Home and Information Avnish Kumar Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary Revenue Renuka Kumar, Director General of Police Hitesh C Awasthi were present. Along with this, various efforts are being made to deal with Corona.