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Bengaluru adopts Mumbai model to tackle second wave of Covid
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Bengaluru adopts Mumbai model to tackle second wave of Covid. Image Source: IANS News
Bengaluru, May 8 : Taking a cue from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) s success in tackling the second wave of Covid, Karnataka issued directives to set up Ward Decentralised Triage and Emergency Response (DETER) Committees for Covid management in all 198 wards in Bengaluru based on the Mumbai model.
The ward level committees will have officials of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), ward committee members, government officers, volunteer RWAs and civil society organisations. This will help in the decentralisation and provide better supervision for ward-level Covid governance, read the directives issued by the Revenue Department s principal secretary, N. Manjunath Prasad.
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ITC Infotech is aiding in setting up the analytical system and removing hurdles
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The first batch of 80 oxygen concentrators of 10 litres each installed in one of the rooms at GKVK CCC in Bengaluru on Saturday.
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ITC Infotech is aiding in setting up the analytical system and removing hurdles
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is in the process of setting up a COVID-19 Care Dashboard and a data-driven analytical system in collaboration with ITC Infotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of business conglomerate ITC Ltd.
The move is aimed at upgrading the local body’s existing pandemic care infrastructure and removing the multiple hurdles people have been facing in the chase for beds. The second wave has seen horror stories of people scrambling to find oxygenated beds.
They prioritise allotment of beds based on severity of COVID-19 infection
Sleuths from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) police probing the alleged bed allotment scam have begun an audit of all beds allotted through the city’s civic body in April 2021.
With more than 10,000 beds allotted by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike during in April, a senior police official said the process was time-consuming.
“We have already identified at least 12 cases where beds were blocked in a person’s name only to be manually changed and allotted to someone else. But manual change cannot be concluded as bed-blocking. We are investigating these cases. However, families of patients who may have paid a bribe are not forthcoming, and we are hitting a dead end there,” the officer explained.
Video of Karnataka BJP MLA Satish Reddy arguing with BBMP officials goes viral; arrest him, says Congress
Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah demanded the arrest of BJP MLA Satish Reddy, saying that the party leader along with his supporters should be arrested for disrupting the functioning of Bommanahalli war room. Satish Reddy has, meanwhile, refuted allegations against him.
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File photo of Karnataka BJP MLA Satish Reddy.
Amid the Opposition mounting an attack on the ruling BJP in Karnataka over its MP giving a communal twist to the BBMP bed scam, a video of party MLA Satish Reddy arguing with officials at Bommanahalli war room has surfaced on social networking sites.