Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday called up PSUs, healthcare, finance institutions to synergise their efforts with Odisha government in the fight against the Covid-19 situation in the State.
Pradhan convened a high-level meeting with senior management of all the PSUs operating in Odisha spread across sectoral ministries, captains of healthcare & financial institutions and senior officials of State Government of Odisha to review Covid-19 management and emergency preparedness in the State.
The Union Minister urged all the stakeholders to work with a ‘whole of government approach’ for ramping up the health infrastructure, including enhancing capacity of dedicated isolation beds, intensive care units and beds with oxygen support across the length and breadth of Odisha.
“I encouraged all our PSUs to take lead in procuring vaccines from the open market under the Liberalised and Accelerated Phase 3 for inoculating their human capital as well as people above 18 in the civil society to further speed up the vaccination drive in Odisha,” Pradhan quoted his statement as saying to the delegates through the virtual meeting today.
He also stressed on combining strengths of all stakeholders and working with an integrated approach for creating a robust healthcare delivery system, effective resource utilisation & to ensure better preparedness for combating the current Covid-19 wave as well as for new waves.
Participants during the meeting also discussed ways to better assist, facilitate & work together with the Government of Odisha in ramping up testing and other resources, including emergency medicine for offering a better and stronger response to the pandemic.
Rajya Sabha member Ashwini Vaishnaw, Additional Chief Secy. Govt. of Odisha, Mission Director- National Health Mission, Director of ILS (Bhubaneswar), RMRC (Bhubaneswar), senior officials of SBI, East Coast Railways, Airports Authority of India, Paradip Port, MCL, NALCO India were among others present during the virtual conference.