Nabarangpur: Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra along with Additional Chief Secretary Health and Family Welfare Pradeepta Kumar Mohapatra visited Nabarangpur district today to review ground level situation on Covid management.
They along with the Collector and other senior officers of the district visited Covid hospital, looked into functioning of ICU, construction of new 200 bed hopstl ward and establishment of oxygen plant in district head quarter hospital of Navrangpur.
Review showed that test and positivity ratio in the district has been reduced from 20% to 13% during last days because of shutdown and other enforcement measures taken by Goverment. This trend is in declining state, and, is expected to reduce further in coming days.
Replying to media query after the field visit and review, Chief Secretary Mahapatra said that new RTPCR machine in Nabarangpur would be operationalized shortly which would provide for testing facility of around 500 samples per day. All efforts would be made to complete construction of the oxygen plant and new ward within 3 to 4 moths.
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