The Srinagar administration has released a substantial amount of 3 crore rupees to the health and municipal departments and other concerned offices of the district.
The amount was released to enable these departments toprocure requisite equipment and items for strengthening the response mechanismto deal with the challenge from the coronavirus epidemic.
The health department wasprovided a major chunk of the amount — including Rs 70 lakh each to the Office of the ChiefMedical Officer Srinagar and the SKIMS Medical College & Hospital and Rs 20lakh to the Government Medical College Srinagar.
The Srinagar Municipal Corporation was also provided fundsas part of the release. The organisation was provided Rs 35 lakh to support andenhance its ongoing sanitisation and disinfection measures and otheractivities.
Each of the seven Tehsildars whose offices are also activelyinvolved in the effort have also been provided funding to equip them andenhance their capabilities. The officers have been provided an amount of Rs 2lakh each.
This substantial fundingto the tune of Rs 2.10 crore in aggregate has been released under the StateDisaster Response Fund or SDRF.
In addition to this the administration also released 90 lakhrupees to three major hospitals for strengthening their power backupfacilities.
The amount includes Rs50 lakh to SMHS hospital, Rs 30 lakh to LD hospital and Rs 10 lakh to JLNMhospital. The amount was released under the Special Area Development Programmeor SADP.
Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary whoauthorised release of the funding said the government is taking all measures and steps required to deal with thischallenging situation. He said all that would be required will be done tostrengthen the response mechanism for containing spread of this infection inthe disaster.
It is notable that the Srinagar administration has put inplace extensive containment measures to prevent spread of the coronavirusinfection in district. The response mechanism has been further intensifiedafter a positive case surfaced in the district.