People must join hands with us to overcome COVID-19: Sonowal

People must join hands with us to overcome COVID-19: Sonowal

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday appreciated the health workers' roles in inspiring the common people through their wholehearted efforts and instilling confidence in the people that Coronavirus challenge would be overcome.

Sonowal today visited Tezpur Medical College and Hospital and reviewed the preparedness of Sonitpur district administration to prevent the outbreak of novel Coronavirus. He directed the deputy commissioner of the district to ensure supply of essential commodities so that people do not have to face difficulty during the lock down period.

He urged the District Chamber of Commerce to keep a strictcontrol over the prices of essential items and prevent price rise. He alsodirected for setting up a dedicated 24/7 monitoring cell in the DeputyCommissioner's office where people can report about suspected cases and seekhelp for prevention of the disease outbreak. He asked the deputy commissionerto appoint dedicated employees in the cell.

For awareness generation in the tea garden areas in thedistrict, the Chief Minister asked the Health Department officials to carry outregular miking and announcements in the tea gardens. He stressed on the need tomonitor the youths coming home from outside the state and making them awareabout self-quarantine protocols. The importance of hand washing, hygiene,social distancing etc must be taught in the tea garden areas and the need tostay within homes during 21 days national lock down period must be properlycommunicated, he said. He also directed the Health Department to conduct healthcheck-ups of tea garden youths coming from outside the state with the MobileMedical Unit vehicles. 

Uninterrupted drinking water supply, maintaining transportcommunication for essential commodities, conducting sanitization of publicplaces were some other key directives of the Chief Minister during the meeting.

Later addressing the media personnel in the medical college,the Chief Minister thanked the doctors, nurses, paramedics of Tezpur MedicalCollege and Hospital along with safai karmis and cleaners, police and all thepersonnel of various departments working dedicatedly to fight the coronavirusmenace.  He appreciated their roles ininspiring the common people through their wholehearted efforts and instilling confidencein the people that Coronavirus challenge would be overcome.

The common goal should be to make the people aware aboutmaintaining hygiene and social distance while staying indoors during thenational lock down period. To break the chain of infection and stop of spreadof COVID19, people of all sections of the society must join hands with thegovernment so that Assam can be saved from the reach of this global pandemic,he said. Saying that the guidelines issued by WHO must be followed strictly, heappreciated the medical fraternity of the state for their untiring and selflessservice.

The endeavour is to protect each and every person of Assamfrom novel Coronavirus and the state government is facing this 'Agnipariksha'with the support and cooperation of the people, he asserted. The Chief Ministeralso said that Government has taken all possible steps to prevent this virusand people must stay confident of the government's efforts in overcoming thischallenge.

The Chief Minister earlier visited the isolation wards ofthe hospital and also took stock of ICU units and other facilities available inTMCH. He interacted with the doctors and other staffs of the hospital about thepreparatory measures taken for the treatment COVID19 affected patients. 

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