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KATHMANDU
The government has constituted a high-level committee for effectively carrying out prevention and control of the coronavirus infection at the state level. Minister for Health and Population Bhanubhakta Dhakal formed a committee tasked for the prevention and control of the virus in coordination with the hospitals at the state, district and local levels.
A three-member committee coordinated by the Ministry or Department has been formed. Other members of the committee include a section officer of the National Health Training Centre and a public health officer of the ministry.
The committee would coordinate the state, district and local levels to address challenges in the prevention and control of COVID-19 in the state and also coordinate for smooth delivery of services.
The committee mandated for two to three weeks would make on-site study and arrange for intensive care units and ventilators for coronavirus-infected patients in coordination with the state-based hospitals, local levels, state health office, state health directorate, state laboratory, state supply centre and social development ministry.
The committee would also coordinate for effective contract tracing, mandatorily keeping people entering Nepal through checkpoints in quarantine and holding centres and compulsory arrangement of PCR tests.
The committee has been formed to coordinate health workers and other supporting staff through hub and satellite hospitals and also to take prompt initiatives for the construction of oxygen plants at COVID-19 dedicated hospitals.
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