Write a letter to the Commissioner, Nashik Municipal Corporation, requesting him to look into the problem of shortages of Oxygen cylinders, ventilator beds, Remdesivir injections and to suggest a few measures to control the situation.
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Faced with the daunting challenge of unprecedented surge in Covid-19, eleven states including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi on Saturday stepped up pressure on the Centre to resolve their key concerns around supply of oxygen cylinders; supply of Remdesivir in hospitals; addition of ventilator stock besides enhanced supply of vaccine doses.
These issues were raised by most of the 11 States — Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh — at a review meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday.
“Many of them raised the issue of dovetailing the Medical Oxygen supply lines and the capping of prices of essential drugs like Remdesivir which has been sold in the black market at exorbitant prices. Double mutant strain in Maharashtra was a key point of concern.