Expedite setting up of jumbo
hospitals:
CM to Pune officials

Uddhav urges MLAs, MPs from district to push Centre to provide medical supplies
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray on Thursday directed the Pune district administration to expedite the
setting up of the proposed
three jumbo hospitals to
tackle the surge in COVID19
cases and constantly monitor the availability of beds.
In his first visit to Pune
since the start of the outbreak, Mr. Thackeray uredMLAs and MPs from the district to push the Centre attheir respective levels to ensure that the district’s hospitals have adequate supplies
of ventilators, personal protective equipment and N95
masks from September 1.
‘Reduce case growth rate’
At a meeting at the Vidhan
Bhavan, Mr. Thackeray said,
“Elected representatives
must act as a bridge between
the administration and the
people. Everybody must act
in unison and make a determined effort to bring down
the case growth and fatality
rates. I have already directed
officials to form a task force
for clinically ill patients in every district. While the State
has already requested the
Centre to provide medical
equipment to cope with the
rise in cases after August, I
urge all local leaders from
Pune to do the same.”
The Chief Minister urged
the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to take the lead in
streamlining the bed management system and making
sure correct data is uploaded
on its dashboard. He said the
civic bodies in Nashik and
Aurangabad districts must
ramp up their medical infrastructure to deal with the
spike in cases.
Mr. Thackeray said, “The
State government will give
all necessary funds to these
civic bodies to bring the contagion under control. Private
labs must immediately refer
patients who have tested
positive to PMC authorities.
They can then arrange for
treatment immediately.”
Mr. Thackeray’s visit follows criticism from the Opposition, especially the Bharatiya Janata Party’s
Shivajinagar MLA Siddharth
Shirole and party State president Chandrakant Patil, that
the Chief Minister has abandoned Pune to its fate.
‘Fix inauguration date’
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr.
Shirole said he had urged the
Chief Minister to direct the
district administration to declare a date when the three
jumbo facilities will be
opened. “While we welcome
the directive of setting up
three jumbo hospitals in the
city, I have demanded that
the administration declare a
fixed date as to when these
facilities would be set up, given that authorities are giving multiple dates and likely
possibilities,” he said. He also demanded daily monitoring of the COVID19 situation
by the State government.
Mr. Shirole said the PMC
needs to evaluate the
“worstcase scenario” in cases and fatalities at the end of
every month.
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