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Assam’s new health minister Keshab Mahanta visits FAAMCH, Barpeta on Thursday

Barpeta, 13^th May : State Health and Family Welfare, Water Resources etc. Minister Keshav Mahanta today arrived at Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College Hospital in Barpeta and held a review meeting on the treatment of Covid patients. Where Deputy Commissioner, Barpeta (in-charge) Tej Prasad Bhusal, Deputy Commissioner, Bajali Mrigesh Narayan Baruah, Barpeta SP Dr. Raveen Kumar, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College Principal Dr. Ramen Talukdar and other district officials were participated. The Minister, who is also in charge of science and information technology, announced the decision to provide Covid vaccine to one lakh people every day in Assam from today onward. In the conversation with the reporters he said the government will focus on providing a second dose vaccine on priority basis. The Health Minister also announced that another oxygen plant will be set up at Barpeta Medical College Hospital. The work of setting up the oxygen plant will be complete within the next fortnight. Once the project is complete, oxygen can be given to the patient through pipes in about two hundred beds. He also directs the public sector department to start the work of the project from this day or tomorrow. The Covid positive patients will be under constant monitoring from the district administration, police administration and health departments and appropriate treatment will be provided, he added. The minister directed the district commissioner to provide food grains of Rs. 2000 to families under the BPL i.e. poverty line in isolation or in the containment zone at home. On the other hand, patients at the Covid Care Centre will be given food of Rs. 300 per day. The minister informed that the prominent technical institute in Guwahati, which is administered under the guidance of Shrimanta Shankar Academy (SSA) Society, was also used as a Covid Care Centre after the first wave of Covid19 hit Guwahati. The awareness on the part of the new health minister regarding the state’s Covid19 situation has brought hopes to the people of Assam.