Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Minister of Commerce &
Industry engages with 12 State/UTs and reviews status of COVID management
including Oxygen availability and usage
Posted On: 19 SEP 2020 5:25PM by PIB Delhi
As part of Union Government’s
coordinated strategy for effective containment and management of the COVID-19
pandemic, a high level review meeting was chaired by Cabinet Secretary today.
Member (Health), NITI Aayog, Union Health Secretary, Secretary, Department of
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, senior officials of the Health
Ministry, Ministry of Home Affairs and Chief Secretaries of the 12 State/UTs
participated in the review meeting. The 12 States/UT that participated in the
VC include Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
Odisha, Chandigarh, Telangana, Kerala, Delhi, Punjab and West Bengal. About 80%
of the COVID caseload in the country is concentrated in these States/UTs.
Minister of Commerce &
Industry also addressed the States and reviewed the oxygen availability in
these states. He specifically requested them to focus on analysing district
level and health facility level status and effectively plan and manage logistical
issues related with Oxygen availability. He also urged them to share their best
practices which in turn can be emulated by other States/UTs in the country.
The Cabinet Secretary while
complementing the States for significantly ramping up testing, expressed concern
that the case fatality rates of several States are still higher than that of
the national average. He urged the States to analyse mortalities district and
hospital wise for identification of critical areas of intervention. He
also exhorted the states to ensure optimal utilization of RT-PCR capacity. He
underlined the need for ensuring that no symptomatic negative case (tested by
Rapid Antigen Tests) is missed and all such cases are mandatorily administered
RT-PCR test.
Union Health Secretary presented
a detailed status note of COVID-19 on all these states with particular focus on
the number of tests being conducted in each State/UT, their positivity rate and
their average daily CFR, availability of health infrastructure and their
district wise Oxygen availability.
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