ITANAGAR, Mar 31: In order to strengthen the public health system and ensure concrete preparedness against COVID -19, the Arunachal Pradesh government has appealed the retired health professionals to volunteer for reserve staff to supplement the current human resources and staffing shortages in the state. The interested health professionals have been requested to contact the Director of Health Services at Naharlagun. 
With the steep rise in the number of COVID 19 infection cases everywhere, proper precautionary measures have been put in place in the state. The Frontline Response Team deployed all over the state is dealing with COVID 19 suspects for which PPEs have been supplied. A total of 10000 N-95 masks from HLL, 300 VTMs from ICMR and 30 Thermal scanners reached the state today and distribution is underway.
In order to meet up the shortage of medical equipments due to the lock down, a special chartered Cargo flight is being arranged by State Government from New Delhi to Guwahati on Wednesday to ferry essential medical equipments like surgical masks, PPEs with all accessories and other stuffs for the state. Medical items for sanitisation has also been ferried in to the state.
State run helicopters has been put into service to deliver all essential ration commodities to people living in far flung areas which are not connected by roads. First such Helicopter sortie was made to Vijaynagar today and another five sorties have been planned for the week.
As preparedness measures, ICU with Ventilators have been set up in TRIHMS. Isolation wards and  quarantine rooms have been identified in all the districts besides helpline and control room working round the clock, said CM in his statement. CMO

 

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