Sunday, 23 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda said that the resolve to defeat Covid-19 needs to be strengthened further while also taking care of those actively involved in this fight. Communication should be maintained with such party workers who have been infected or have lost their family members to Covid. To meet such party workers of the families of those party workers who lost their lives to Covid, four-member committees should be formed at the State and district level. The committee members will regularly take their feedback regarding their health and if needed will arrange for their hospitalisation and manage other necessary assistance. In case a party worker dies from Covid, the chief minister and party state president will communicate with the bereaved family. Apart from this, Nadda also stressed on the need for providing all types of assistance to the public, increasing Covid testing especially in remote and rural areas, and forming containment zones to break the chain of transmission. The BJP national president said this in a virtual meeting attended by the BJP state president Madan Kaushik, chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat and the party’s State in-charge Dushyant Kumar Gautam along with MPs among others.
Nadda recalled that in his meeting with chief ministers of all states on March 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had alerted them about the second wave and discussed various important issues. He said that the opposition has been spreading rumours about the Covid vaccine since the beginning and is now complaining about vaccine shortage. The dual character of the opposition needs to be exposed in public, he said.
Kaushik said that the party organisation is working ceaselessly to tackle the pandemic and untimely disasters. He said that with Covid spreading in the rural areas of the state, the BJP has activated all its seven cells to help in tackling this aspect of the pandemic. A 12-day programme has been prepared for this purpose, said the BJP State president.
Chief minister Rawat informed that there had been a considerable drop in new Covid cases in Uttarakhand in the past one week. While improvement in health services is being expedited, large scale Covid testing is being done in rural areas. Currently, 183 metric tonnes of oxygen is available in the state. The State presently has 6,110 oxygen supported beds, 10,300 oxygen cylinders, 1,553 ICU beds, 983 ventilators, 2,293 oxygen concentrators, 458 ambulances and 30,568 isolation beds. Stating that Covid testing had reached upto 40,000 per one lakh population during May in Uttarakhand, he said that the Covid sampling rate here is considerably more than in other states. MPs Ajay Bhatt, Ajay Tamta and Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah were also present in the virtual meeting.
