Covid-19: Nodal officers to be appointed in each district of Haryana, will monitor hospitals

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Chandigarh, January 14

Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij today said that two nodal officers would be appointed for each district of the state, out of which one would monitor the arrangements at the government hospital in each district and submit its report.

The second officer would monitor the private hospitals of the district concerned and provide information about the arrangements available there to the state government. Apart from this, he said telemedicine would be made effective in Haryana and for this, 1075 senior officers of the health department would be put on duty.

Vij was presiding over a meeting of senior officers of the Health Department and Medical Education and Research Department today in which the current Covid situation was also discussed.

Vij said home isolation kits would be prepared at the headquarters level and these would be sent to the districts soon so that the kits could be made available to the patients living in home isolation in a time-bound manner.

Directing the officials of the Health Department, the minister said that the patients living in home isolation should be monitored daily and information should be provided to them through telemedicine. He said telemedicine would be made effective in Haryana and for this, senior officials of the department would be put on duty on 1075 so that they could give effective form to telemedicine by visiting eSanjeevani daily.

1,500 kits ordered

An order for 1,500 kits had been placed for genome sequencing and these will be provided to the state government in three phases. 96 samples can be taken from a single genome sequencing kit. Anil Vij, state health minister