Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15: Former Union Health Minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting measures to increase COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in the country, party officials said.
In his letter, a copy of which has also been sent to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Azad has also given suggestions for further augmenting health infrastructure in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, they said here.
Congress officials said the former Rajya Sabha member, whose tenure ended earlier this year, also made a few recommendations for increasing capacity of vaccinators in the country besides ensuring more supplies for vaccination to counter the pandemic in the country.
The letter was written to the prime minister this morning for his consideration, they said.
Meanwhile, AICC COVID Task Force Chairman and former LoP Ghulam Nabi Azad and J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President Ghulam Ahmad Mir today held detailed discussions over the current COVID situation in J&K and expressed serious concern over the high number of mortalities in especially in Jammu amidst reports of shortcomings in the required facilities.
Both the leaders shared the pain and grief of those who lost their near and dear ones due to COVID and conveyed their heartfelt condolences to them besides expressing deep sympathies with those facing the sufferings of the situation.
Taking review of the initiatives and efforts of the LG administration to deal with the situation, Azad expressed deep concern over the high number of casualties in Jammu besides loss of several lives in Kashmir and urged for immediate measures to save the loss of lives.
The leaders also discussed the reports about the bedding capacities, availability of medicine, ambulance services and other facilities and various reports of shortcomings in the logistics in different hospitals and felt the urgent need to address those on top priority and asked the LG administration to upgrade the health infrastructure on war footing basis, as the situation is extremely disappointing and needs to be contained to avoid further loss of lives.
Both Azad and Mir urged the rank and file of the party to reach out and be in touch with the patients in hospitals or home quarantine and provide them all possible help by way of medicines, food packets, masks or arranging oxygen cylinders from private outlets or any other required help to ensure timely relief to patients, without any aim of publicity.
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