Govt should adopt multi-pronged strategy to fight COVID: Sethi

BJP leaders during a press conference at Jammu on Wednesday.
BJP leaders during a press conference at Jammu on Wednesday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 26: Jammu and Kashmir BJP, Chief spokesperson, Sunil Sethi, while assuring the people that the party is with every citizen in fight against COVID, today said that the administration should adopt multi-pronged strategy to defeat Corona Virus.
Addressing press conference along with party spokespersons Balbir Ram Rattan and Rajni Sethi here at party headquarter, Sethi said that in view of the suspected third wave of COVID, the administration should set up Committee of Experts to suggest means to minimize loss of human lives and protect people from the dreaded virus. The Committee should also be assigned the task to suggest requirements related to infrastructure for better and timely treatment as Coronavirus keep changing its pattern to attack a person and the treatment pattern should be more advanced and effective.
“The administration should not hesitate to involve political, social and religious organisation and NGOs as well for defeating COVID”, Sethi suggested.
As far party, J&K BJP president, Ravinder Raina is making efforts, day and night, for better infrastructure and having covered almost whole of Jammu personally and pursuing matter with the Government. “Our MPs, elected representatives in Urban Local Bodies, BDCs, DDCs and senior leaders too are doing splendid job during the pandemic”.
Sunil Sethi shared that new Oxygen Generation Plants with manifold systems to meet the demand are being installed in Community Health Centres CHCs), Trauma and Emergency Hospitals in Jammu province. The objective to set up Oxygen Generation Plants in CHCs is to provide adequate Oxygen along with other facilities with improved infrastructure in rural areas.
Sethi reiterated BJP’s resolve to reach every nook and corner of the UT under ‘Seva hi Sangathan’ programme and provide every kind of possible help in the pandemic time.
BJP is doing constructive politics of standing with people. “We criticize Government when we find that works are not upto mark despite our reporting”, he said.