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AMMU, Feb 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.Jammu travel guide Click here to watch video 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.
Dulloo 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 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.
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