Odisha: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan encourages PSUs to vaccinate its staff after procuring it
Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan
BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said the public sector undertakings (PSUs) should procure vaccines from the open market and vaccinate its employees along with people above 18 years from the civil society. He said this while reviewing the Covid-19 management and emergency preparedness in Odisha.
“I encouraged all our PSUs to take the 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,” said Pradhan.
The review meeting was attended by senior management of all the PSUs operating in Odisha, captains of healthcare and financial institutions and senior officials of the Odisha government. Besides, Rajya Sabha MP Ashwini Vaishnaw, directors of ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), AIIMS Bhubaneswar and ILS Bhubaneswar also attended the virtual review meeting.
They discussed collaborating efforts and working with a ‘whole of government approach’ for ramping up the health infrastructure, including enhancing capacity of dedicated isolation beds, intensive care units (ICUs) and beds with oxygen support across the length and breadth of Odisha.
The Union minister also stressed on combining strengths of all stakeholders and working with an integrated approach for creating a robust healthcare delivery system, effective resource utilisation and to ensure better preparedness for combating the current Covid-19 wave along with the new waves.
“We also discussed ways in which we can assist, facilitate and work together with the state government in ramping up testing and other resources, including emergency medicine for offering a better and stronger response to the pandemic. Together we can and will overcome this,” said the minister in his tweet.
The Centre has started a vaccination drive for the people of 18-44 years age group from May 1.
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