CS reviews admin efforts towards
safeguarding Badhal residents
AIIMS Delhi to train local doctors to
deal with such situations
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 6:
Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo today again chaired a meeting of all the concerned
from Health and Police Departments along with the representatives of nationally
reputed institutions to take assessment of the efforts made to safeguard the
lives there besides identifying the causes behind these deaths.
The meeting besides
Principal Secretary, Home and Secretary, H&ME was attended by ADGP, CID;
Divisional Commissioner, Jammu; IGP, Jammu; IGP, CID; DC, Rajouri; SSP,
Rajouri; Principal, GMC Jammu and other local health experts.
It was also joined
by Director, AIIMS; Director, PGIMER, Chandigarh; DG, ICMR; Director, Indian
Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow; Director, CFSL; Experts from
National Institute of Virology (NIV), DRD, Gawalior and experts from other
reputed laboratories carrying out investigation of the samples sent by the
Health Department.
Dulloo took this
occasion to impress upon the concerned not to lower their guard and take
samples of fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides used locally to identify the
root cause of these deaths. He also asked for augmentation of facilities in the
local hospitals so that these are well equipped to deal with any such
eventuality in future.
He directed for
carrying out audit of the health facilities to examine the need of adding more
ICU beds, oxygen plants, isolation wards in addition to availability of
specific drugs and specialists there.
The Chief Secretary
also urged the AIIMS, New Delhi to extend their support in enhancing the
capacity of the local medics here for dealing with such situations. He also suggested
for sending some doctors there for specialized training and also sending some
experts from there to build capacity of many more here in the hospitals of the
UT.
He also talked to
the Heath experts from different national institutions and sought their
suggestions for adopting the future course of action. He simultaneously
directed the Law Enforcement Agencies to conclude their investigations in light
of the test reports received from these institutions and the ones which are yet
to come.
The Secretary
H&ME, Dr Syed Abid Rashid Shah informed the meeting that every measure has
been taken to isolate the families and provide them food and water after
testing the same. He further informed about the drugs and medical teams that
had been made available locally at PHC Kandi and GMC Rajouri.
The Secretary also
gave out that out of the 55 symptomatic persons 38 were discharged after
recovery and 17 deaths had been registered so far. He revealed that there are
currently no admissions in any of the hospitals and patients had even been
examined by teams of doctors from PGIMER, Chandigarh and AIIMS, New Delhi here.
It was further
given out that the health teams are stationed there to keep surveillance for
any of the symptoms appearing in any person with whole population of the
village screened by healthcare providers.
The Divisional
Commissioner, Jammu informed the meeting that it is ensured that no food or
eatables are exchanged as the families had been removed from their homes and
kept under continuous surveillance.
He informed the
meeting that at present 363 souls from 60 different families had been
quarantined with 592 animals being tended by the officials from Animal and
Sheep Husbandry Departments to safeguard their lives.