Oxygen beds in AP increased by 660% in 6 months

Vijayawada: Increase The number of oxygen beds have been increased by a whopping 660% within a span of 6 months. Until March, the state had only 3,451 oxygen beds available, whereas the present figure stands at 26,250. The government aims to add another 5,339 beds to the list in order to achieve its estimated target.

While addressing the collectors of the 13 districts during a video conference he chaired from the Tadepalli camp office, the CM emphasised the need to strictly monitor the services being provided at all the 224 hospitals presently dealing with Covid patients. He said, “Quality of management is the key in this war against Covid. If we do that properly, 90% of our job is done as we have already been doing it for months now.”

Further, the CM said, "Every person in the state should know what he/she is supposed to do, who he/she is supposed to contact when he/she starts showing symptoms and feels that they have been infected. Every person who wants to get tested, should be tested at any cost.”

The collectors and joint collectors in each district have been asked to monitor the quality of services being provided at all the 224 hospitals based on 4 key parameters – food, sanitation, infrastructure and staff.

While a massive recruitment drive is already underway, the CM instructed the officials to monitor the strength of the staff in each hospital and immediately recruit wherever necessary. The authorities have been asked to maintain a detailed database of all the patients, which could help the doctors identify probable plasma donors in order to save lives. Emphasis was laid on providing oxygen generators to districts which are located at considerable distances from the point of origin of the pipeline.

VILLAGE/WARD SECRETARIAT

In an attempt to monitor all the employees of every single village/ward secretariat in the state, biometric system has been introduced to calculate their attendance.

“Every single employee should be available at the secretariat, volunteers also should give attendance at least thrice a week,” said the CM.

Jagan Mohan Reddy instructed all the collectors to mandatorily visit a village/ward secretariat at least twice a week, joint collectors to do the same 4 times a week and the HODs and secretaries to visit twice a month.

A dedicated helpline number with a workforce of 200 people has also been set up in order to improve the services being provided at each village/ward secretariat. The employees will not only be responsible for taking calls and forwarding the information but will also be pursuing with the department about the progress of the works.

Nadu-Nedu

In connection with Nadu-Nedu, the CM said that with the inclusion of kitchens in the project, all the government schools should be revamped. Now, the number of essential components has gone up to 10, including good toilets, quality drinking water, necessary infrastructure renovations, painting the entire school, furniture,

green board, compound walls, uninterrupted power supply, English labs and kitchens.

A total of 55,607 anganwadis will also be revamped under the scheme. All the 10 components will be incorporated in each of the anganwadis and they will be called YSR pre-primary schools.