AMN / MUMBAI
Maharashtra Health Minister Dr.Rajesh Tope has instructed all district collectors of the state to prepare isolation kits for those who are receiving treatment at home. In the kit, there should be 20 ml Sanitizer, 10 Masks, Information Booklet, 10 Paracetamol Pills, 20 Multi-Vitamin Pills. He further said that those in Home Isolation will be called 3 times a day on the first, fifth, and seventh day from the call center of the Health Department.
As per the instructions given by the Union Health Minister, all the health facilities and oxygen plants will be operational. 404 out of 523 oxygen plants in Maharashtra are in operation at present and the remaining plants will also be operational in the coming days.
Strict restrictions in place in Maharashtra to ensure implementation of guidelines
Meanwhile at Maharashtra government has revised the guidelines for beauty salons and gymnasiums and it was decided to include beauty salons in the group of hair cutting saloons, which paved the way for them to operate with 50 percent capacity. Similarly gymnasiums will also remain open with 50 percent capacity allowing fully vaccinated members in the gyms. Use of masks is mandatory and only fully vaccinated staff will be allowed to operate at these centres.
Mumbai has shown marginal drop with less than 20 thousand daily cases yesterday, but the higher infection rate among police personnel, doctors, staff of government offices, BEST and Railway staff and other frontline workers has become the major cause of concern. It has also put extra burden on the other staff who are working in this challenging situation. Lower hospitalization rate and less use of oxygen is the only relief for the administration.