Control rooms to monitor oxygen, bed availability

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 13

To tackle rising caseload in the state, the Punjab Government has constituted two dedicated control rooms to streamline oxygen supply and availability of beds.

The oxygen control room is being headed by senior IAS officer Rahul Tewari with officers Tanu Kashyap, Abhinav Trikha, Pradeep Aggarwal and Shaukat Ahmed Pairi as members. The control room for hospital bed availability will be under the supervision of IAS officer Ajoy Sharma with officers Vijay Naamdeo Zaade, Mohammad Tayyab, Vipul Ujjwal and Praveen Kumar Thind as members.

Chairing a meeting of the oxygen control room, Tewari said the functions of both control rooms could be accessed by public on website statecovidcontrolroom.punjab.gov.in.

He said oxygen availability was being assessed regularly and arrangements were being made to tackle any exigency. It was the priority of the state government to ensure unhindered oxygen supply and availability of beds to patients, he added.

He said regular updates regarding availability of oxygen and beds would be made available to public through social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.