20.05.2020: Governor calls for preparing State for COVID challenge in June – July

Publish Date: May 20, 2020

Review meeting on COVID – 19

Governor calls for preparing State for COVID challenge in June – July

· Calls for special strategy in containment zones

· Asks Govt to take care of Non Covid patients

· Consider incentivising frontline workers

The Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari today asked the state administration to prepare itself for COVID challenge considering the likely situation of Corona Virus Disease in the State in the months of June and July. He asked the government to keep enough medical facilities, doctors, staff and beds ready considering the likely case load in the months of June and July.

Presiding a high level review meeting with senior government officials at Raj Bhavan, Governor Koshyari asked the government to take special measures for containment zones like Dharavi.

The Governor asked the government to keep a dashboard providing handy information about availability of beds, availability of doctors, nurses and para medical staff for the entire state so that the same could be deployed where needed most.

The Governor asked the government to think of incetivising frontline workers like sanitation workers, police, health workers, ward boys who are doing good work in the battle against COVID.

The Governor asked the administration to make sure that non COVID general patients do not suffer anywhere in the State for want of medical facilities.

A presentation on COVID situation in Mumbai was made by Municipal Commissioner I S Chahal, while ACS Health Dr Pradip Vyas apprised the Governor of the government’s COVID preparedness in the State.

The Governor also took review of transportation of migrant workers to their home States and the status of relief camp for migrant workers.

The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta, ACS Home Sanjay Kumar, DGP Subodh Jaiswal, ACS Sitaram Kunte, ACS Nitin Kareer, ACS Manoj Saunik and senior government officers Abha Shukla, Sanjay Mukherjee, Bhushan Gagrani, Saurabh Vijay and others.