AGRA: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday visited AMU’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College to review the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the varsity where deaths of several staff members, including 16 serving, 10 retired faculty and several non-teaching staff have been reported. The university has already sent the virus samples to ICMR to assess possibilities of any new variant in Aligarh.
Vice-chancellor of the university, Tariq Mansoor, told TOI that the CM assured all possible help in the fight against Covid-19, especially with supply of life-saving drugs, including Remdesivir and Oxygen supply. The CM said, “Vaccination could have saved lives. The VC raised the demand for additional oxygen, which has been provided.”
A government spokesperson said, oxygen and medicines have been dispatched and the university brass has been promised every possible assistance in handling the situation. The CM also reviewed the vaccination programme and visited the integrated command and control centre, he said.
The AMU VC told TOI, “Though we have an eight-bed paediatric ICU and high dependency unit (HDU) each, CM Yogi has asked us to expand it in view of a possible third wave which could be harmful for children.”
During a meeting with the CM, the VC said that many of the faculty members and non-teaching staff, who died due to Covid-19, were not vaccinated and were hospitalized late. He also said there could be possibilities of a new strain of the virus in Aligarh too. The VC said, “Vaccination is very important and I have been urging all staff members to get vaccinated first.”
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