Lieutenant Governor (LG), GC Murmu Monday convened a high level meeting to review COVID19 preparedness in Kashmir.
The meeting discussed various measures which were beingtaken to control the spread of COVID19 across Kashmir.
In a power point presentation financial commissioner, Healthand Medical Education Department, AtalDulloo informed there were 108ventilators, 18,183 PPE kits, 81,089 N-95 Masks, 7,06,601 triple layer masks,11,456 VTM, 12,923 sanitizers and 354 infra red thermometers available inKashmir.
It was also informed there were 11 dedicated hospitals fortreatment of COVID19 patients in Kashmir with a total strength of 8736 beds.The district wise details of red zones, buffer zones, isolation beds, COVID19wellness centres was also given in the meeting.
It was divulged that so far 75,838 travelers and persons incontact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance in J&K andsurveillance of 57,386 people has been completed so far.
The meeting was also informed that rate of increase ofCOVID19 patients has been stabilized, which earlier was fluctuating, adding1,912 tests were being done per million population with four labs being madeoperational.
Besides two CB NAAT labs have been made functional and rtPCRmachines have also been pressed into service to enhance COVID19 testing.
The LG directed to ramp up the testing and priority be givento pregnant women, elderly and all those returning from outside. He directedsetting up of kiosk like facilities for testing labour class as has been donein some of the districts across the Valley.
The LG also asked Director SKIMS to start online trainingsessions with doctors and medical staff and apprise them of the protocol to befollowed while treating COVID19 patients.