Mock drill on COVID readiness at hospitals in Karnataka on Dec 27
Bengaluru: A mock drill to test the COVID emergency preparedness of health facilities in Karnataka will be conducted on December 27, state Health Minister K Sudhakar said on Friday.
Addressing reporters here, after a meeting with Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya, he said, “We are conducting the mock drill in all our health facilities on December 27 just to make sure all our facilities, right from infrastructure health personnel, our equipment, oxygen generators, everything are in working condition.”
Mandaviya held an emergency COVID meeting with all the state health ministers and gave a presentation on the prevailing status of pandemic across the world. “Mandaviya has given us several guidelines. He has also directed all the states to ensure that adequate beds are reserved for COVID patients in district hospitals, Taluk hospitals, and also in the private establishments,” Sudhakar said.
The state health minister noted that about five to six lakh cases were being reported daily but of them, 80 percent of these cases are contributed by only 10 countries. It was obvious that India has to be careful and take all precautionary measures.
“The Union Minister has given us some specific directions like increasing the surveillance and testing. Secondly, appropriate COVID behavior should be brought back and thirdly we have been asked to conduct mock drill in our health facilities.”
On guidelines for the New Year, he said the Centre has asked the states to closely monitor major activities.
“Any activity that involves thousands of people is a big gathering. So, we need to closely monitor and should also ask people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour, because this is not the time you let your guard down,” Sudhakar added.
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
