Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday reviewed health department’s preparedness for early detection, isolation, testing and timely management of suspected and confirmed cases to contain outbreak of Coronavirus variants, in the wake of alert issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The review meeting was convened by Secretary, Health and Medical Education, Bhupinder Kumar here on Wednesday in which all Head of Departments of Health and Medical Education Department besides other concerned participated, an official spokesperson said.
While discussing strategies to tackle the pandemic, the Secretary, he said, emphasized the need of ensuring a strict vigil over the situation besides keeping ready the infrastructure and requisite supplies to tackle with any such cases.
Kumar, he said, also reviewed in detail the available infrastructure, machinery and equipments including the status of testing capacity, availability of COVID essential diagnostics, COVID drugs and Oxygen Generation Plants.
“Secretary instructed the Principal Government Medical College Jammu and Government Medical College Srinagar to ensure genome sequencing machines are installed and operationalized immediately in both the Medical Colleges to perform genome sequencing of all COVID positive cases,” the spokesperson said.
The Secretary, he said, also asked the Managing Director, JKMSCL, to ensure that the COVID drugs and diagnostics are arranged in adequate quantities.
“He directed the HoDs of Health and Medical Education Department to make assessment of their requirements immediately and sent the requisition for procurement to JKMSCL,” he added.
