PM interacts with regional people’s representatives and officials on Covid-19 in Varanasi

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today reviewed the status of Covid-19 in Varanasi district through video conferencing. During the meeting, information about testing, beds, medicines, vaccine, and manpower etc. was taken by the Prime Minister for prevention of corona and proper treatment of corona infected patients. He directed the officials to provide all possible assistance to the public at the earliest.

During the discussion, the Prime Minister specially emphasized that “two yards, mask is necessary” should be followed by all the people. Emphasizing the importance of vaccination campaign, the Prime Minister said that the administration should make all people above 45 years of age aware of this. He also asked the administration to provide possible assistance to the people of Varanasi with full sensitivity.

The Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to all the doctors and medical staff of the country and said that even in the time of this crisis, he is following his duty faithfully. He said that we have to be cautious while learning from the experiences of the last year.

The Prime Minister said that as a representative of Varanasi, he is also constantly taking feedback from the general public. He said that the expansion and modernization of medical infrastructure in Varanasi in the last 5-6 years has helped in fighting Corona. With this, the availability of beds, ICUs and oxygen is being increased in Varanasi. In view of the pressure created by the increased number of patients, the Prime Minister also gave special emphasis on the need to increase efforts at every level. He said that the way the Varanasi administration has set up ‘Kashi Covid Response Center’ at a rapid pace, the same speed should be brought in every task.

Emphasizing on ‘Test, Track and Treat’, the Prime Minister said that like the first wave, the same strategy has to be adopted to win over the virus. He also stressed on making contract tracing and test reports of infected persons at the earliest. He also directed to discharge all the responsibilities towards patients living in home isolation and their families in a sensitive manner.

The Prime Minister praised the Varanasi NGOs and said that the way they worked with the government should be encouraged. He again stressed the need for greater vigilance and caution in view of the situation.

Through video conferencing, public representatives and officials of Varanasi region informed the Prime Minister about the preparations made in the area for protection and treatment from Covid. In this regard, the Prime Minister was informed about the control room set up for contact tracing, command and control center for home isolation, dedicated phone line ambulance, telemedicine arrangement from control room, deployment of additional rapid response team in urban area etc. | The Prime Minister was informed that so far 198383 persons have been given the first dose and 35014 persons have been given both doses of vaccination for protection from Covid.

During this video conferencing, MLC / Covid in-charge Varanasi Mr. AK Sharma, Divisional Commissioner Mr. Deepak Agarwal, Commissioner of Police Mr. A. Satish Ganesh, District Magistrate Mr. Kaushal Raj Sharma, Municipal Commissioner Mr. Gaurang Rathi, Dr. Chief Medical Officer Dr. N. P. Singh, Director I. S. S. B. B. H. U. Prof. BR Mittal, Hon’ble Minister of State Neelkanth Tiwari, Hon’ble Minister of State Ravindra Jaiswal, HRM MLA Rohanians,  Surendra Narayan Singh, MLC Ashok Dhawan and MLC Laxman Acharya were present.