Link medical facilities with virtual ICUs: CM Yogi Adityanath
He asked the Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretaries of Home (health and medical education) along with medical experts to hold a detailed discussion to finalize the action plan in this regard.;
Lucknow: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to start the process to link medical institutes with virtual ICUs by using technology in such a way that the serious patients may get treatment from experienced doctors.
He also asked the officials to keep ventilators/high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) functional in all districts.
At a meeting of Team 11, the Chief Minister has directed officials to adopt an effective strategy to control the spread of Coronavirus in districts where 100 or more positive cases are being found every day for the last one week.
He asked the Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretaries of Home (health and medical education) along with medical experts to hold a detailed discussion to finalize the action plan in this regard.
The Chief Minister reiterated that nodal officers be nominated in these districts with the deployment of special secretary-rank officers with each of nodal officer.
Yogi also asked officials to maximize contact tracing for effective control on Corona infection. He asked them to target high-risk groups and put them to tests.
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