CDS Bipin Rawat briefs PM Narendra Modi about operation by Armed Forces in dealing with Covid surge

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefed by Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat in regards to the efforts and operations by the Armed Forces in aiding the states and civil administration in combating the surging second wave of the Covid-19 circumstances throughout the nation.
While the Air Force has been transporting medical tools, together with oxygen tankers, each domestically and internationally, the Navy was despatched to Lakshadweep as part of Oxygen Express. The Armed Forces Medical Services has deputed its workers on the numerous unique Covid-19 services being arrange by DRDO in Delhi, Varanasi and Lucknow amongst different cities.

Rawat knowledgeable the Prime Minister that “all medical personnel from armed forces who have retired or taken pre-mature retirement in the last 2 years are being recalled to work in Covid facilities within proximity of their present place of residence” and different medical officers, “who retired earlier have also been requested to make their services available for consultation through medical emergency helplines”.

He additionally advised Modi that every one medical officers on workers appointments on the command, corps, division headquarters and the headquarters of the Navy and the Air Force will likely be employed at hospitals.
The Defence Ministry talked about in an announcement that Rawat apprised Modi about nursing personnel being employed in “large numbers to complement the doctors at the hospitals”.
As the assorted elements of the nation are going through a dearth of medical oxygen, Rawat additionally advised Modi that “oxygen cylinders available with armed forces in various establishments will be released for hospitals”. The forces, Rawat stated, are “creating medical facilities in large numbers and where possible military medical infrastructure will be made available to civilians”.
Modi additionally reviewed operations being undertaken by the Air Force to move oxygen and different necessities in India and overseas. On Monday, Air Force’s C17 transport plane landed in Dubai to airlift seven empty cryogenic oxygen containers. It will attain Panagarh by 5:30 within the night. The Air Force had introduced 4 cryogenic oxygen tankers from Singapore to Panagarh on Saturday.
Apart from these, the Air Force’s transport fleet has been conducting common sorties all through the nation carrying important medical tools to completely different elements.

During his assembly with the CDS on Monday, Modi additionally mentioned “that Kendriya and Rajya Sainik Welfare Boards and Officers posted in various headquarters in veterans’ cells may be instructed to coordinate the services of veterans to extend the reach to maximum extent possible including in remote areas”.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had held two evaluate conferences with the armed forces and different wings of the ministry, asking them to work on a war-footing and lengthen all attainable help to the civil administration.
The armed forces, together with the Defence PSUs, Ordnance Factory Board, DRDO and different arms of the Defence Ministry have been rising their contributions within the fight towards the pandemic.
DRDO has reopened its Covid-19 facility in Delhi final week, with 500 beds, and is establishing a 500-bed Covid hospital in Patna, a 450-bed hospital in Lucknow, a 750-bed hospital in Varanasi and a 900-bed hospital in Ahmedabad, all of that are both already purposeful or will likely be within the coming days.

On Friday, the ministry had talked about that AFMS will import 23 oxygen technology vegetation and containers from Germany, which will likely be deployed in AFMS hospitals. These vegetation have a capability to provide 40 litres of oxygen per minute and a pair of,400 litres an hour. At that price, they “can cater to 20-25 patients round the clock” and are “easily portable”, the ministry had stated.