Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Tuesday addressed all the district collectors at the review meeting on the COVID-19 preparedness. The Chief Minister has asked collectors to appoint cluster in-charges and district-level flying squads.
According to an official release, Reddy said there is a need to devote attention to its management so as to avoid hardship to the public as it was done during the first wave last year. "There is also a need to ramp up testing capacity duly ensuring RT/PCR tests being carried out," he added.
CM stressed on the need to ensure that each and every case of death analysed properly and that appropriate action, in terms of clinical practices, such as to ensure that serious cases reported to the hospital on time. He said, "We making arrangements to procure enough vaccines to cover 2.04 Cr population between the age of 18-45 at the state cost. Collectors must personally ensure that there is 100 per cent coverage of the left over health workers and other front line workers by appropriately motivating and counselling them."
As the country is facing an acute shortage of oxygen. Reddy instructed to carry out an oxygen audit in each of the hospitals. As per the release, 320-340 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen supplied to all the hospitals in the state. In the meeting, Reddy also instructed the collectors to ensure the effective functioning of the District 104-Call Centres. According to the official data released by Union Health Ministry, Andhra Pradesh has 95,131 active COVID-19 cases.
