Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal reviews COVID scene
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal discussed the COVID-19 situation with Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over the phone on Thursday.
| 7 May 2021 2:17 AM GMT
GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal discussed the COVID-19 situation with Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over the phone on Thursday.
Sonowal also held a video conference with the Deputy Commissioners and reviewed various aspects of the COVID-19 response in the districts.
The Chief Minister directed the DCs to take approximate measures to control the price rise of essential goods and medicines. He also asked the DCs to regularly visit the hospitals to review the COVID situation and check whether medicines supplied by the government were adequately available in the hospitals.
Tezpur University to provide Oxygen Cylinders to nearby Hospitals
The University would support the health care services by providing them empty cylinders available in their laboratories
| 7 May 2021 1:05 PM GMT
Tezpur: As rest of India continues to struggle for a sufficient supply of oxygen, closer home, Assam appears geared up to handle any situation. While the state government has already taken steps to ensure an uninterrupted supply of oxygen to the state, Tezpur University is offering to provide empty oxygen cylinders available in its laboratories to nearby hospitals.
The registrar of the central university in a statement, said, In view of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shortage of oxygen cylinders, Tezpur University would like to support the health care services by providing them empty cylinders available in our laboratories. The cylinders are required by nearby hospitals for storing oxygen.
Guwahati Reporter:
Who Will Be Next CM of Assam?: The people of Assam s wait for its next CM continues. It has been five days since the Assam election results were announced on May 2, Sunday, yet no sign of any announcement about who will be the state s next CM. The state is in limbo. Let us not forget that Assam too is in the middle of a massive fight against COVID as the numbers are rising every day.
Soon after the assam results were announced, there was news that Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has been given the responsibility to act as the observer of BJP s parliamentary committee, meet the elected MLAs and discuss the important issue of selecting the next CM of Assam and set the ball rolling for Assam s next government and the Council of Ministers. But news later came in that he had postponed his visit. The BJP top brass got busy with managing things in West Bengal.
Hope not, but the pace at which COVID-19 positive cases are rising in the State points to a ‘recipe for health disaster’ when patients may cry for oxygen and COVID beds.