Advisor Baseer Khan reviews supply of essentials

Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, who is in-charge coronavirus control efforts in Kashmir, convened a meeting here Friday to review measures put in place for prevention and the deadly infection.

The meeting was attended by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir,P K Pole, IGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, all Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of Kashmir,Commissioner SMC and other officers via video-conferencing. IGP Traffic, SSPNational Highway, and other officers also attended the meeting.

   

The officers gave a detailed presentation regarding numberof langars, shelters established in Kashmir, stock and supply position ofessentials, status of areas in red zone, random testing of persons from redzones, distribution of triple layer masks, issues of outside labourers andvarious other preventive measures.

The DCs informed the Advisor that there was no shortage ofessentials in their respective districts and lockdown was being strictlyimposed and testing of probable coronavirus cases was being done by doctors asper guidelines.

The meeting was also informed there was no shortage oftriple layer masks and medicines in the Valley.

The Advisor was also informed that food items were beingprovided to non-local labourers also and their health related issues were beingtaken care of. The meeting also discussed facilities made available atquarantine facilities.

The Advisor directed Divisional Commissioner Kashmir toprepare a detailed list of cancer patients, who were in need of medicines sothat medicines would be made available to them.

The Advisor also told the traffic officials to allowessential commodity trucks to Valley on priority so that supply of essentialswould be maintained.

He also directed the DCs to increase the number ofquarantine rooms with requisite facilities in their respective districts andensure availability of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff, in case ofexigency.

The Advisor directed all the DCs to provide doorstepdistribution of ration and other essential commodities to the consumers so thatpeople do not suffer.

The Advisor directed the DCs to get the banned Russianpoplar trees in their respective districts cut, to avoid any health-relatedproblem to people.

The meeting was informed that daily surveillance ofrespiratory tract Infection cases in 10 districts was going on, Rapid ResponseTeams (RRT) were in place in every district, samples were being collected anddata analysed.

The meeting was informed about stock position of masks,Personal Protective Equipment, VTMs and other equipment besides functioning of24×7 district control rooms.

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