Track down absconding travellers on war footing basis: Div Com to DCs

Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole on Wednesday directed all Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to track-down all absconding travellers on war footing and put them in administrative quarantine.

All DCS were asked to strengthen their ground surveillanceteams and trace the absconding recent travelers of other states and abroadvisitors immediately and put them for proper screening and quarantine.

   

Additional Deputy Commissioners have been put in charge ofcontact tracing and they are following the mechanism as per prescribedadvisory.

The Divisional Commissioner directed the DCs to set-upseparate helpline numbers for cancer, dialysis patients and other seriouspatients at all district headquarters immediately so that life saving treatmentwill be ensured for them at an earliest.

He directed the DCs to constitute teams under CMOs who shallvisit juvenile, old age homes and orphanages alternatively for health checkupsof the inmates besides establishing separate dedicated helpline numbers fortheir services in each district.

The Divisional Commissioner passed these directions whilechairing a meeting to review preparedness and arrangements to combatcoronavirus disease in the Valley.

He sought detailed feedback from all the DCs regardingarrangements against COVID19 pandemic through video-conferencing.

The meeting was informed that samples collected fromBaramullah, Kupwara, Bandipora, Ganderbal and Budgam were tested at SKIMS hereand samples collected from Srinagar, Pulwama, Shopian, Anantnag and Kulgam werebeing tested at Chest Disease hospital.

Pole directed them to take employees from non-essentialdepartments and deploy them at block, tehsil and district level for COVID19related emergency tasks. Adequate number of officials will be earmarked for redzones, hospital isolation, administrative and home quarantines which willmonitor their smooth functioning. Officials should submit the daily basedreport to the DCs for further course of necessary action.

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