STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: A team of APCC (Assam Pradesh Congress Committee) led by party president Ripun Bora met Assam Chief Secretary on Wednesday and suggested some measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has urged the Assam government to take the following actions immediately to save the lives of the people of Assam —
Urgent Capacity Building to tackle the emergency of COVID spike in the State.
Preparedness of the government must be enhanced by creating more hospital beds in all districts and sub-divisional headquarters and ensure an uninterrupted supply of oxygen in the entire State.
Drafting more doctors, medical students, nurses, midwives, Asha workers and other trained civilians for tackling emergency COVID spike in all health facilities.
Testing capacity must be augmented and the testing ambit must be expanded to cover larger sections of the society.
Procure more vaccines urgently for the State to cover all population above 18 years of age.
Emergency contingency measures to keep supplies of all essential commodities for common people at affordable prices.
The government had recently stopped the supply of COVID vaccines to the selected private hospitals. Restore the vaccines facility to the selected private hospitals by the uninterrupted supply of vaccines.
The government must immediately start a vaccination drive for people above 18 years.
The government must make an immediate contingent plan for uninterrupted supply of all essential commodities and services in case of national lockdown or State-level lockdown.
It has been reported that in many hospitals, even in medical colleges serious patients other than COVID are being not looked upon properly on the pretext of COVID priority. The government must take utmost care so that any patient other than COVID patients is not deprived of proper treatment in the hospitals.
The government should create Jumbo COVID Centres in cities and towns with trained staff and proper hygiene facilities.