"Call centres and control rooms have been set up for guest workers at the state level in the Labour Commissionerate here and also at 14 district headquarters," a labour department official said here.ĭirections have been given to listen to their issues empathetically while arriving at the call centres and give them enough mental support to resolve and overcome, the official said.īilingual officials are assigned in these centres to answer the queries and doubts raised by the guest workers, he added. An online PSA training programme is also being carried out by the Directorate General of Training (DGT) through 24 regional centres across the country.The state government has also set up multilingual call centres and opened control rooms to help migrant workers, who have come in search of job in the southern state.Īs per the directions of CM Vijayan, the labour department has made several precautionary measures to ensure the safety of migrant workers, fondly being called 'guest workers', during the time of the pandemic and elaborate arrangements to address their fears and concerns. More than 1,600 candidates joined the training programme covering 738 districts. The states need to ensure that the technical training of the operators is completed. It was pointed out that the Union Health Ministry has started the National Oxygen Stewardship programme from December 22. The complete burning of the powder happened inside the cartridge without any external source of oxygen. Gunpowder composes of both fuel and oxidizer, the saltpeter ingredient act as oxidizer and provides the gunpowder the oxygen it needs. They were also advised to lodge any complaint related to ventilators in the online complaint management system, which was launched on August 30 last year, the statement said. How so Dont you need oxygen for an fire Well, yes you need oxygen, but not necessarily from air. The states were further reminded to expedite the process of finalising the maintenance contracts with the manufacturers. Edit 10/27/17: Ive been able to get the car to run fairly reliably. They were urged to address the large gaps that continue to exist between the numbers of delivered and installed ventilators, provide the consignee details of hospitals for the requirement of additional ventilators and expedite the issuance of final acceptance certificates for the installed ventilators. The car has other issues preventing it from running reliably, so I cant give a long term review, but I have yet to get any oxygen sensor related codes from the scanner since putting this in. The Union health secretary emphasised that the states need to ensure that the delivered ventilators are quickly installed and commissioned at the designated field health facilities, the statement said. The states were also exhorted to monitor the installation of PSA plants at private as well as medical college hospitals. In addition, the flow meters must remain in a functional state, they were told. The states were also requested to ensure that a mock drill of the PSA plants is carried out to ensure that the oxygen flow at the patients' bedside adheres to adequate purity and the recommended outlet pressure with no leakages. Mr Bhushan urged the states to commission the PSA plants being set up from the states' funds and CSR funds on a war-footing.
The states are required to make these facilities operational and secure approval from the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) in respect of the LMO tanks, the statement said. Under ECRP-II, funds are also made available for installing liquid medical oxygen (LMO) tanks and medical gas pipeline systems (MGPS).
The states were urged to ensure full and optimal utilisation of the ECRP-II funds through daily reviews and to upload the expenditure on the dedicated NHM-PMS portal so that they are eligible to receive further funds to strengthen the healthcare facilities up to the sub-district level. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan chaired a high-level meeting with representatives from the states and Union territories through a video-conference on Friday to review the preparedness of the entire spectrum of oxygen equipment, including ventilators, PSA and oxygen plants, oxygen concentrators, and oxygen cylinders, for a timely and effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a statement issued by the Health Ministry. Underlining the challenge posed by a rising number of COVID-19 cases across the country, with a focus on Omicron, the Centre on Friday emphasised that it is the primary responsibility of the states to ensure that all the oxygen equipment at all the health facilities are tested and kept in a functional state to meet any emergency.