Kanpur: The Kanpur BJP MP Satyadeo Pachauri, in a virtual meeting with the district officials on Tuesday, asked them to follow the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s directives and start ramping up the infrastructure to ensure availability of required drugs, equipment, and ICU beds for children to tackle a possible third wave of Covid.
To recall, the CM, during his recent visit to the city had asked the authorities to equip a medical college with 100-ICU paediatric beds, 100 beds for neonatal intensive care units (NICU) with oxygen and also that 20-25 NICU beds should come up immediately in each district hospital of the division.
Durimng the meeting with officials including divisional Raj Shekhar, the MP said that there should be a concrete plan to improve the infrastructure in the paediatric ICU and neonatal ICU.
He also asked the authorities to keep a strict vigil to check black marketing of medicines, and overcharging by private nursing homes and hospitals.
MP directs officials to revamp infrastructure
