Thiruvananthapuram: With Covid-19 once again spreading unchecked, the government’s control and coordination supervisory mechanism, the Covid war room, will resume its operations from Monday.
The war room will function from the south conference hall in the Secretariat. The core team members of the war room led by disaster management commissioner A Kowsigan include urban affairs director Renu Raj, IG (registrations) Inbasekhar, horticulture mission director Aarathi, and director (finance) Kerala state electricity board Ltd V R Hari.
The team will also include joint secretary and under-secretary ranking officials from health and family welfare, local self-government, general administration, industries and public relations departments. In addition, supporting staff will also be drawn from stakeholder departments to assist the members of the war room. The primary tasks of the war room include monitoring the trigger matrix of the pandemic on a daily basis, evaluating the infrastructure on the basis of the trigger matrix and ensuring that the districts are expanding their capacity accordingly, identify the roadblocks for the districts if any, ensuring the capacity expansion in the private sector to augment the government’s capacity and escalate the issues to higher level according to the intervention required.
The war room will constantly monitor the infrastructure and availability of various categories of beds at government Covid hospitals and private hospitals, and the rate of occupancy of these beds. Along with the occupancy trends, the irregularities and abnormality in these trends, if any, will also be analysed. The number of people in home isolation will also be taken stock of. On the material management side, along with the stock of Covid-19 drugs, the war room will also take a detailed assessment and daily stock of Covid-19 related medical equipment.
The production, distribution, availability and consumption data of liquid oxygen will also be scrutinised on a daily basis by the war room team.
In addition to the Covid-19 related data and infrastructure in the state, the government has also instructed the war room to analyse the data being entered into the Covid-19 Jagratha portal and compare this with other available data sources to ensure data consistency. Efforts are on to develop analytical methods based on infrastructure and occupancy data to identify occupancy trends and the gaps if any in reporting the data. The war room will report the daily analysis to the chief secretary and the principal secretary (health and family welfare) and also would present them in the review meetings of Covid situation chaired by the chief minister.
The cabinet had last week decided to resume the concept of war room in the wake of an increasing number of cases and the government imposing more restrictions in districts based on their categorisation.
The war room will function from the south conference hall in the Secretariat. The core team members of the war room led by disaster management commissioner A Kowsigan include urban affairs director Renu Raj, IG (registrations) Inbasekhar, horticulture mission director Aarathi, and director (finance) Kerala state electricity board Ltd V R Hari.
The team will also include joint secretary and under-secretary ranking officials from health and family welfare, local self-government, general administration, industries and public relations departments. In addition, supporting staff will also be drawn from stakeholder departments to assist the members of the war room. The primary tasks of the war room include monitoring the trigger matrix of the pandemic on a daily basis, evaluating the infrastructure on the basis of the trigger matrix and ensuring that the districts are expanding their capacity accordingly, identify the roadblocks for the districts if any, ensuring the capacity expansion in the private sector to augment the government’s capacity and escalate the issues to higher level according to the intervention required.
The war room will constantly monitor the infrastructure and availability of various categories of beds at government Covid hospitals and private hospitals, and the rate of occupancy of these beds. Along with the occupancy trends, the irregularities and abnormality in these trends, if any, will also be analysed. The number of people in home isolation will also be taken stock of. On the material management side, along with the stock of Covid-19 drugs, the war room will also take a detailed assessment and daily stock of Covid-19 related medical equipment.
The production, distribution, availability and consumption data of liquid oxygen will also be scrutinised on a daily basis by the war room team.
In addition to the Covid-19 related data and infrastructure in the state, the government has also instructed the war room to analyse the data being entered into the Covid-19 Jagratha portal and compare this with other available data sources to ensure data consistency. Efforts are on to develop analytical methods based on infrastructure and occupancy data to identify occupancy trends and the gaps if any in reporting the data. The war room will report the daily analysis to the chief secretary and the principal secretary (health and family welfare) and also would present them in the review meetings of Covid situation chaired by the chief minister.
The cabinet had last week decided to resume the concept of war room in the wake of an increasing number of cases and the government imposing more restrictions in districts based on their categorisation.
