Oxygen war rooms set up

New Delhi, May 5

With the surging Covid infections, the Union Territory has ordered establishment of oxygen war rooms besides Covid control rooms, and 24×7 call centres in all 20 district headquarters.

Of the 51 Covid deaths on Monday, 35 were reported in the Jammu division and 16 in Kashmir. In all, 3,733 fresh Covid positive cases were reported the same day, raising the number of the total cases in J&K to 1,87,219. Of them, 2,421 persons have died since March 2020 —1,440 in Kashmir and 981 in Jammu. Until Monday evening, the total number of cases in J&K was 34,576.

Amid reports of four deaths due to faulty supply of oxygen at Jammu’s Batra Hospital (ASCOM) and 15-20 Covid patients dying for three consecutive days at Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital Jammu, coupled with reports of the ICU beds falling short in Kashmir, the Covid Apex Management Group (CAMG), headed by Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, held an emergency meeting in Jammu on Monday. According to the minutes of the meetings, a copy of which is available with India Narrative, the CAMG decided to immediately set up the control rooms and call centres.Telephone numbers of these Centres would be made public through print media, electronic media and social media and services through bulk SMS on Swasthya Nidhi Data App.(This content is being carried under an arrangement with indianarrative.com)