Monday, 17 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Panchayati Raj secretary, HC Semwal has said that a vigil on the health of the returnees should be kept and persons with symptoms of Covid 19 should be kept in isolation in the villages. He was addressing a meeting of district level officers of Panchayati Raj, Rural Development, Women Empowerment and Child Development, and Youth Welfare departments on Sunday.
Semwal who also is the nodal officer for returnees in the wake of pandemic said that the state administration on May 9 had ordered that every migrant returning to village should be kept in quarantine for seven days. He said that a Gram Panchayat level Covid control committee headed by Gram Pradhans is constituted for distribution of kits to persons with symptom, isolation of infected persons and making arrangement for transfer of patients to hospitals. Semwal said that adequate arrangement of budget for these activities has made. He said that the patients in home isolation should be asked to get into contact with doctor on e- Sanjeevani portal.
The distribution of Ivermectin tablets should be done to every household with the help of the health department and district administration. The secretary said that the vaccination of the panchayat representatives should be done on priority and the problems and issues of the Panchayats should be informed at the Help desk (Number 181004190444). Semwal said that the Kishore Nyay Samiti constituted by the Supreme Court (SC) should inform about the children rendered orphan in the pandemic and arrangements for rehabilitation of such children should be made.
The Youth Welfare director GS Rawat, DRDA Rural Development joint Vivek Upadhyaya, deputy director of Women Empowerment and Child Development, SK Singh and others attended the online meeting.
