Thomas (Special correspondent)
“Secondary and tertiary care to be strengthened”
Health Minister Dr.K.Sudhakar met Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in New Delhi along with CM Basavaraj Bommai and sought additional allocation of funds under National Health Mission (NHM) for upgradation of PHCs in the state.
Speaking to media after the meeting,Dr.Sudhakar said that Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya appreciated Karnataka’s efforts in Covid-19 management.
State has an inventory of over 50 lakh doses of vaccine and has achieved 82% coverage in first dose and 37% coverage in second dose among eligible population.
State government is planning to upgrade and modernise all PHCs in the state and we have sought additional allocation under NHM to implement it.
Centre has responded positively to our request.We also discussed about strengthening trauma care, secondary and tertiary care in all districts across the state, said Sudhakar.
State government is awaiting centre’s guidelines on vaccine for children.The children’s vaccine is in trial phase and centre will soon decide after discussing with vaccine manufacturers.
We must not let our guard down against pandemic and state govt has released guidelines for festival season.
We are continuing to conduct about 1 lakh tests everyday and the positivity rate is less than 0.4%. So there is no need to panic, said Dr.K.Sudhakar.
