Store essential medical items: AIMED

It lists 47 essential medical supplies for the 3rd phase

#CHENNAI By modifying the Productivity Incentive Program (PLI) to encourage the manufacture of COVID-19-related items, the Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED) has required the stocking of 47 critical items. COVID related devices to respond to the third wave of the pandemic.

“With 60% higher cases expected in Wave 3, it is important not only to block oxygen supplies but also for all critical COVID medical supplies,” said Rajiv Nath, forum coordinator, AIMED. IANS.

AIMED also wrote to Central government listing the 47 critical items that may be needed when the third wave hits the country, as well as on other issues.

According to him, it is urgent to constitute a stock of 25 to 30% of the annual national demand and to store it in the four geographical zones. The stock is expected to be used annually for domestic consumption needs by XCntral and public health care procurement and replenished annually, said Nath, who is also the managing director of Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices. IANS

█ Government 700% increase in O2 exports in 2020: Priyanka

#NEWDELHI Congress Secretary General Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday launched a direct attack on the central government over the country’s oxygen crisis, saying the government had increased oxygen exports by 700% by 2020.

Attacking the government in a Facebook post, Gandhi said: “The Modi the government increased its oxygen exports by more than 700% in 2020, a pandemic year. Most of this supply went to Bangladesh.

It also did not invest in the early importation of excess oxygen. »IANS