New Delhi: Strategy to prevent the revival of Covid-19 cases through various levels of public health has been intentional to the different technical committees and the center continues to suggest the state to strictly follow the strategy of the “testing-vaccination and compliance of behavior according to Covid”, Rajya Sabha was told on Tuesday.
Health State Minister Bharati Pravin Pawar said this in response to the question of whether the government had conducted detailed research with experts on how to minimize the threat and the possibility of the third wave of pandemic, if not prevention.
In a written reply on the question at Rajya Sabha, Pawar said the strategies and interventions needed to prevent the revival of the Covid-19 case through institutionalizing various public health steps has been discussed in various technical committees under the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) and the Directorate General of Health.
These technical committees include subject experts from the field of public health, doctors, scientists, microbiologists, etc.
Taken from leading public health institutions and hospitals and world health organizations.
The Ministry of Health continues to suggest the state to strictly follow a five-fold strategy “Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and Compliance with Covid’s appropriate behavior”, said pawar in an answer.
The state and the United States have been suggested through formal communication, video conferencing and through the spread of the central team.
On whether health infrastructure has been strengthened and expanded to meet the challenges throughout the country, Pawar said health is the subject of the country but the Indian government has supported countries and conducting a series of actions including strengthening existing health infrastructure to ensure the supply of adequate hospital beds, drugs -Obat, medical oxygen and other consumables to help the right clinical care of Covid-19 patients.
Describing several ongoing initiatives to strengthen hospital infrastructure, the minister said with the intention of reducing the risk of cross infection to non-Covid-19 patients and to maintain the continuity of non-covid essential health services in the country, a setting of three levels of special health facilities has been implemented in this country.
The Indian government, in addition to providing services through hospitals / facilities available under the Ministry of Health, ROPED in the Tertiary Care Hospital under Esik, Defense, Railways, Paramilitary Forces, Steel Services, etc.
For managing Covid-19 cases.
Furthermore, many large temporary maintenance facilities were founded by Drdo to manage a surge in the Covid-19 case in the country, the answers stated.
Because of the actions with the central and state government, the capacity of the bed isolation and the capacity of ICU beds which are only 10,180 and 2.168 before the first lock (as on March 23, 2020) can be increased to 18.21.420 isolation beds and 1.21,671 ICU beds ( on July 16, 2021).
In addition, dependence on imports in connection with ventilators is mitigated with government and industrial joint efforts under the vision of ‘make in India’.
Government institutions have been allocated 56,218 ventilators, where 48,060 has been supplied on July 13.
Note the deployment of the disease to the dairy and rural areas in many districts, the Ministry of Health on May 16 issued SOP on May 16 Covid-19 containment and management in these fields, said the answer.
With the intention of protecting the pediatric age group in the flow and a surge in cases, the guidelines for managing Covid-19 in children were also issued on June 18.
This guideline provides guidance on the management of acute Covid-19 presentation and multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in children and adolescents found while related to Covid-19.
Oxygen cylinders and concentrators are being obtained and supplied to the state.
Further PSA plants have been approved throughout the country to add oxygen inventory.
In addition, ‘Emergency Preparation & Indian Health System Package Covid-19: Phase-II’ has also been approved by the Cabinet with RS 23,123 Crore (with RS.
15,000 CR as a component of the Center & RS 8,123 Crore as a country component) and is implemented starting 1 July 2021 to March 31, 2022.
Pawar said the vaccination drive would be scheduled.
When the country will achieve universal vaccination, the Minister said Covid-19 vaccination was a ongoing and dynamic process, which was guided by the National Expert Group on the administration of vaccines for Covid-19 (Negvac) based on the same scientific evidence.
Given the dynamic nature and evolved from Covid-19 pandemic, no time lines can now be indicated for settlement of vaccination drives.