Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has expressed concern over the increase in number of Covid-related deaths in Kangra district. He directed officials to ensure that serious patients are shifted from home isolation to health institutions immediately so that proper treatment could be made available to them. He reviewed the Covid-19 situation in the district at Dharamsala.

The Minister on Saturday flagged off 11 vehicles containing home isolation kits for COVID-19 patients under home isolation. Calling the pandemic outbreak “nothing less than a war”, he urged the people to strictly adhere to COVID-19 protocol like wearing masks and maintaining social distancing. The home isolation kits contain 'chawan prash', 'kaada', protective masks, hand sanitisers, medicines, CM's message, among others.

The chief minister also launched 'Himachal COVID Care' mobile application for helping in the speedy recovery of patients in home isolation. A 'Sanjeevani Specialist OPD' mobile application was also introduced wherein as many as 70 specialists of AIIMS Bilaspur will provide advice to state residents through tele-medicine service.

He said a 200-bedded dedicated COVID centre has recently been made functional in Mandi. More such centres are being set up in Kangra, Solan and other districts in the Radha Soami Satsang complexes, he said. Another campaign will be launched on the lines of the Active Case Finding (ACF) programme for identifying COVID-19 patients among MLAs, councillors and panchayat representatives, the CM added.

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