 Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 13: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan today convened a meeting via video conference to review the Management of Covid 19 and status of Labourers / Students and other residents of the Jammu and Kashmir arriving from outside and the arrangements being put in place for them.
Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole, all Deputy Commissioners of Kashmir Division, Director SKIMS, Principal GMC Srinagar, Director Health Services Kashmir, Director, Airport Authority Srinagar, Principal SKIMS Medical College Bemina joined the meeting via video conference.
At the outset, the Advisor sought the feedback from all the Deputy Commissioners regarding the people/residents of J&K who are arriving from outside the UT and the facilities being arranged for them by the concerned District Administrations, their testing and sampling, arrangement done in administrative quarantine, status of additional quarantine facilities, status of Red Zones and other issues related to Covid-19 pandemic.
Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar informed the Advisor that the District has Administrative quarantine capacity of 6000 and also expected influx of 15000 persons from outside the J&K in next 15 days.
The Advisor directed Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar to create the additional quarantine facilities and asked the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir to fix the quota of samples to be tested for each District in correspondence to the quantum of influx and the capacities thereof.
MBaseer Khan said that 30 thousand mattresses and bed sheets are being sent to the Div Com Kashmir who will further ensure its distribution as per the requirement of the Districts. He also asked the concerned authorities to increase the testing capacity, so that people can be sent to home quarantine, hence, reducing the stress on administrative quarantine.
The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir apprised the meeting that screening booths and dedicated help lines/ control rooms have been created in each Super Specialty Hospitals with the due publicity in print and electronic media.
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