In a significant move, Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Friday met Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya along with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and sought additional allocation of funds under the National Health Mission for upgradation of Primary Healthcare Centres in the state.
interacting with the media after the meeting Sudhakar said that the Centre has responded positively to our request. We also discussed about strengthening the trauma care, secondary and the tertiary care in all districts across the state. He also said Mandaviya appreciated Karnataka's efforts in the Covid-19 management.
Notably, Karnataka state has an inventory of over 50 lakh doses of vaccine and has achieved 82 per cent coverage in the first dose and 37 per cent coverage in the second dose among eligible population. The state government is awaiting Centre's guidelines on vaccine for children. The children's vaccine is in trial phase and the Centre will soon decide on the issue after discussing with the vaccine manufacturers.
He said that we must not let our guard down against pandemic and state government has released guidelines for festival season. We are continuing to conduct about 1 lakh tests everyday and the positivity rate is less than 0.4 per cent. So there is no need to panic.
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