Guardian Minister orders to pay serious attention to food supply, contract tracing, home segregation, micro zones
Nagpur dt. 3: Energy Minister and Guardian Minister Dr. Nitin Raut has instructed the district administration to take care of food supply, contract tracing, vaccination, home segregation, micro zone creation, call center connectivity during lockdown.
In a meeting held at the Divisional Commissioner's Office on the background of the Corona eruption in Nagpur city, the Divisional Commissioner Dr. In the meeting held in the presence of Sanjeev Kumar, District Collector Ravindra Thackeray, Municipal Commissioner Radhakrishnan B,
He also directed to make the system more responsive to the complaints of ordinary citizens.
In the situation arising out of the city of Nagpur, the administration is working consciously on the key issues of oxygen, remedivisor, availability of beds. We are also pursuing this work ourselves. However, strict restrictions have been imposed in the district. Citizens are barred from leaving their homes. Therefore, it is necessary to be aware of the basic facilities of the poor. The state and central governments have announced free foodgrains through cheap food shops. It will be implemented through the distribution system. He also clarified that it needs to be addressed.
At present there are 7 lakh 614 ration card holders in Nagpur district. There are thirteen hundred cheap grain shops in the district. Antyodaya has 77 thousand 78 magazine holders. The priority holders include 3 lakh 15 thousand 82 magazine holders. All of them should be given five kg of foodgrains per person free of cost. However, the possibility of many of the ration card holders being positive in this distribution cannot be ruled out. The government should relax the condition of distribution to ration shopkeepers through posh machines and provide them with insurance cover. The administration should come up with a solution on what can be done in this regard. He also said that discussions can be held with the seniors in this regard.
Grain is yet to be lifted from the FCI. Therefore, he directed District Collector Ravindra Thackeray to sort out all the problems before distribution starts in cheap food shops.
The Guardian Minister also reviewed the issue of vaccination in the age group of 18 to 44 years. At present, vaccination can be started at three centers namely Indira Gandhi Hospital Gandhinagar, Pachpavli Women's Hospital, Municipal Isolation Hospital Imamwada. However, how many doses the corporation has received so far. Accordingly, it should be decided when to start this planning. Citizens are reporting difficulties in registering online. He said that it is necessary to provide guidance to make the registration process easy and convenient. Municipal Commissioner Radhakrishnan B. He appealed for attention.
So far, 4 lakh 35 thousand vaccines have been received. The drug is supplied from depots at Bhiwandi, Pune and Nagpur. The Hon'ble High Court had also ordered the provision of injections in this regard. Accordingly, from 21st to 28th April till the end, 2 lakh 98 thousand 24 stocks have been received in private and government hospitals till now, informed the District Collector to the Guardian Minister.
Oxygen supply was reviewed at this time. Apart from Inox India, Linde, Air Liquid, Tyo Nippon, JSW, many other small producers produce oxygen. The production capacity of all these is 1270 tons per day. The Central Government has fixed a quota of 1 lakh 784 tons of oxygen for Maharashtra. In addition, our state is getting about 200 to 250 tons of oxygen from Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Gujarat.
An order has been issued to set up a separate oxygen plant in each district. The administration should take immediate action accordingly. The plant at Khaparkheda in Kamathi is being shifted. Therefore, he said that the necessary infrastructure will be completed immediately.
He also reviewed contract tracing. Contact tracing was regular until the month of October. Once again in February, the number of corona patients began to increase. Therefore, as before, there should be at least 10 to 15 contract tracing for every positive patient.
Home isolation must be in constant contact with patients in the micro zone. Mumbai Municipal Corporation has set up a special system to contact the patients. He also said that the model would be tested in Nagpur. He said that the corporation has started a call center but the citizens need to be satisfied with it.