Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 5: Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) has urged the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to impose proper lockdown for at least 10 days across the UT, to break the COVID chain and also to take effective steps to ensure adequate supplies and availability of oxygen cylinders, remdesivir injections, and other medical facilities to deal with rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases.
In a press statement issued here today, DSS president Gulchain Singh Charak said the Government needs to act fast to strengthen the existing medical facilities and increasing the number of beds in ICU’s and COVID centers/hospitals on war footing. He emphasized the need to create an effective mechanism to monitor and coordinate the demand and supply of life saving items like oxygen cylinders, remdesivir injections, etc so that no life is lost because of their non-availability in the UT.
He demanded that the Legal Metrology Department may be activated to take strict action under the relevant provisions of law against unscrupulous elements found hoarding medical supplies to create artificial shortages and charging high rates from the victims of the Pandemic in particular and public in general.
Charak further urged the LG to consider expanding facilities to prepare for future contingencies in view of the snowballing numbers of COVID-19 patients. He suggested immediate creation of centers at the Yatri Niwas, Bhagwati Nagar and other conveniently located Government buildings, having arrangements of requisite oxygen equipment, along with accessories, so that people undergoing home isolation, who do not have the resources to keep personal oxygen cylinders at home, can be allowed to avail this facility on a pro rata basis.
He further announced that the DSS has decided in collaboration with other voluntary organizations, namely Shri Laxminarayan Mandir Management Trust Gandhi Nagar and Dogra Educational Trust Bari Brahamana to set up a helpline namely Dogra Sahayata Kendra to provide help and guidance to COVID-19 victims in contacting the health authorities for consultation/treatment. He said that the helpline centers will also endeavor to provide help in adhering to the norms and SOP’s for protection against COVID-19 as per guidelines.
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