24.05.21

Nambardars to be given health scheme benefit, smartphones

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The Haryana Government has decided to cover nambardars under Ayushman Bharat Yojana to allow them benefits in case of serious illnesses. Apart from this, smart mobile phones will also be provided to them.

Kaushal said there are 23,375 sanctioned posts of nambardars in the state. Under this scheme, beneficiaries were being provided funds up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary Health treatment in public and private listed hospitals in India. The scheme provides health Services free of cost to a beneficiary in Seva Sansthan ie hospitals. The scheme helps in reducing the excessive expenses incurred due to medical treatment. Under it, clinical treatment, health treatment and medicines are available free of cost up to three days before and 15 days after hospitalisation.

Health infra in place, but short of doses: Punjab Govt

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Amid shortage of supply from the Centre, the claims that it is not being able to use the Infrastructure it has established to administer Covid vaccine to people in the state.

The Health department is equipped to give three lakh doses per day, but is able to administer just 65,000 doses currently. Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said the state was equipped with infrastructure to vaccinate three lakh persons every day, but the Centre had failed to supply the required doses due to which the states vaccination drive was moving at a slow pace.

Till mid-April, the state was administering between 6 and 7 lakh doses on an Average. So far, the state has given 48.12 lakh doses to various groups, including healthcare workers, frontline workers and people above 18 years.

Wheat procurement increased in state

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The wheat procurement in the state has surpassed the last years level by 30 per cent. Four new centres have been opened to purchase wheat from farmers after strict restrictions were announced by Punjab and Haryana in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

Around 4,500 MT of wheat has been procured against the total of 3,100 MT last year. The procurement will continue for one month.

The (Fci) has procured wheat for Rs 1,975 per quintal, benefiting 1,124 farmers.

The centres are opened in Paonta Sahib and Kala Amb (Sirmaur), Kanger and Takrala (Una), Fatehpur and Thakurdwara (Kangra) Nalagarh (Solan) and Patta (Bilaspur) from farmers, who were unable to sell their produce in the neighbouring states.

Wheat produced in the Paonta valley is known for its quality but the farmers were either dependent on middlemen or travelled to the markets in Punjab and Haryana to sell their produce at throwaway prices.

The Uttarakhand Government has notified the Black Fungus (Mucormycosis) as an epidemic. This follows the direction of the Union government to all the states and Union Territories (UT) to make black fungus a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897. In an order the secretary of health, Dr Pankaj Kumar Pandey said on Saturday that in view of the increase in the cases of the disease and its occurrence as a side effect in Covid -19 patients, the Mucormycosis is declared as a notifiable disease in Uttarakhand.

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As per the act a notified disease is the one which is required by the law to be reported to the government authorities. It helps the authorities to monitor the disease and warn about its possible outbreak.

The steps also help in coordinated and integrated treatment of the disease as per the protocol.Mucormycosis is a fungal infection which enters the respiratory tract through the nose. The symptoms of the disease are high fever, nasal congestion, headache, eye pain, impaired vision, redness in the eyes, bleeding from the nose, blackness inside the nose, loose teeth, jaw problems and chest pain.

As per the experts the covid-19 patients who are under treatment for a long time, patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus or those with low immunity are under risk of getting infected with the Black Fungus.

Nothing green about horticulture works in Uttar Pradesh

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It is more of a norm than an exception inUttar Pradesh, where the departments are headed by civil engineers in 29 development authorities in the state. The resultant state of horticulture is there for all to see.

The facility that was constituted with an aim to have an effective planning to develop parks, plantations, green belts, vegetated landscapes and urban/rural forests to enrich the atmospheric air with Oxygen is in a shambles, feel both environmentalists and constituents of the UP horticulture department. The primary cause of the grim picture of green works is the absence of dedicated horticulture departments in the public authorities.

Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences/ECOLOGY/Forestry are two completely different disciplines and a person qualified in one stream cannot take up or perform the job of another, whose requirements are completely different.

A distinct and dedicated horticulture department in a public authority is vital to prevent, control and abate the rising Air Pollution in most of the cities of Uttar Pradesh.

Centre accuses Jharkhand of 37% vax wastage, CM counters

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Union Government alleged thatJharkhandwasted 37.3% Covid-19 Vaccines it received till date, the refuted the charge with chief minister Hemant Soren and Health minister Banna Gupta claiming wastage of only 4.65%. However, later the health department clarified that although it could not compile data from all the 24 districts due to the impact of cyclone Yaas, the wastage stands around 2.5%.

Releasing a data hastily compiled by the health department, chief minister Hemant Sorens tweet said 48,63,660 doses were supplied to the districts of which, 40, 12,142 have been administered and 6,56,532 are still in stock.

Bihar has highest number of death of doctors due to Covid-19: IMA

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Bihar has reported the most number of deaths of doctors in the second wave ofCovid-19 pandemicin the country. Altogether 90 doctors from Bihar have lost their lives till now in the second wave of the pandemic out over 280 doctors across the country so far as perIndian Medical Association(IMA). Bihar is followed by Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in terms of doctors dying due to the fatal disease.

The national patients- doctor ratio is 1.4 doctor per 1,000 patients but the corresponding ratio in Bihar is one doctor for 2400 people. Roughly, there are around 30,000 registered doctors in the state against the Population of 12.5crores, out of which 18,000 work in government sector and remaining do private practice. As per a hypothesis, these fewer doctors did not get any rest for more than a year while facing the pandemic from very close. Consequently, they were exhausted, which adversely affected their immunity, which led to severity of the disease in many cases.

At 3%, Chhattisgarhs joblessness much less than national average of 10%: Govt

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Citing a report by Center for Monitoring Indian economy (CMI), the said thatChhattisgarhs Unemployment rate at 3%, is much less than the national Average of 10.8%.

The report shows that with 3%, Chhattisgarhs unemployment rate is much less than that of Haryana, Goa, Delhi, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh,Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura.

Earlier, in November 2020, the unemployment rate was recorded to be 3.5.

According to TRIFED data, minor forest produce worth Rs 181 crore 25 lakhs was procured in the country at minimum support price in the financial year 2020-21 till March 23, and minor forest produce worth Rs 136.63 crore was procured in Chhattisgarh alone. Similarly, more than two-thirds of the target of 11.44 lakh standard bags of Tendu leaves has been collected in Chhattisgarh so far. Around 13 lakh families get EMPLOYMENT due to Tendu Leaves collection in the state. The wage rate for tendu leaf collection has been increased from Rs 2500 thousand to Rs 4000 thousand in the state.

The unprecedented rise in cases during the second wave led to increasing pressure on the public health infrastructure, raising the need for augmentation of beds and allied equipment across the State to ensure that nobody, irrespective of their economic and social status be denied the right to treatment for Covid-19.

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The last wave in Madhya Pradesh peaked at 22,000 Active Cases with maximum hospitalization requirement of 4500 patients across Madhya Pradesh. The public across districts was more than adequate to effectively manage the case load, with less than 50% occupancy observed across Government tertiary Health care centers- the Government medical colleges.

But the State Government had already started planning for the worst, rapidly increasing bed capacities across primary, secondary and tertiary health care centers, ensuring every district had the adequate number of beds in the worst-case scenario.

Gujarat: Rs 1,085 crore loss to agriculture, horticulture

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According to the preliminary assessments of the Gujarat government,Tauktaehas caused a loss of overRs 1,085 crore tohorticultureand Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture in the state. The bulk of the damage to agriculture and has occurred in four districts of Saurashtra Gir-Somnath, Junagadh, Amreli, and Bhavnagar. However, other districts have also reported significant losses.

The crops damaged are mango, coconut, banana, and vegetables. Papaya, sapota, date palm, and other fruit crops have sustained damages too. Horticulture crops have been damaged across 1 lakh hectares.