Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar today said that there is no need of imposing a Lockdown in Telangana as the corona cases are in complete control and declining. In a press conference from Secretariat at BRKR Bhavan with officials, he stated that the corona situation is under complete control in the state. The chief secretary denied imposing the lockdown as the high court instructed them to look into it if necessary to check coronavirus cases.
He reasoned the cause of the problem and panic as the people fearing and rushing to the hospitals besides procuring Remdesivir injections and taking the jabs unnecessarily. He said that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has recovered and will address people and take stock of the situation. KCR, he said, has instructed to procure more facilities by spending adequate funds and 14 more sets up RTPCR labs. We will set up 14 such labs in addition to the existing 17 labs in the districts.
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He said that recovery and fatalities are on a significant decline in the state and cases will soon come down as the state is to see normalcy. Though corona spread sees a slight rise this month the cases will come down in June as the people should maintain restraint and follow protocols.
He said that they procured 6 metric tons of oxygen while the Centre gives 4 MT Oxygen and the state has 52000 oxygen beds and added that the Private hospitals are allowed to procure injections and oxygen now as per government norms.
The situation will soon come down to normalcy and there is no need for panic among people. Despite we provide all facilities there is a problem in understanding the situation by people getting panic and they should not rush to the hospitals unnecessarily.
The people should not get panic as there are adequate beds, oxygen, injections, and facilities in all districts. We are treating people of other states as 32 ambulances came from other states to Hyderabad to get corona treatment.
Somesh Kuma said that the Centre gives us oxygen and corona injections on our demand and as per the stocks available to disburse among all states As per ICMR guidelines we give injections and the people should not rush to hospitals without symptoms causing cases to rise. He said that the state has 4 lakhs vials of injections and gets more to cater to the needs of people. We provide out-patient services in all the hospitals and the people avoidcorona injections fear and face anything with courage as corona will be treated with vitamin tablets.
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He warned against meaningless procurement of Remdesivir injections and there is no need to rush to the hospitals. As per ICMR guidelines, only those symptomatic people can avail of treatment and asymptomatic people cannot dare to advance he suggested.
The symptomatic people with only severity should rush to the hospitals and get treatment by online registration of their names. The chief secretary said that they can get help and suggestions on the corona treatment and facilities through a call center number.
SOURCE-IANS
