NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, MAY 24
After a stinging rebuke from the Gujarat High Court on the conditions prevailing in the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital as well as the testing policy amid the coronavirus outbreak, the state government on Sunday said it would file a detailed reply on how hard it had worked to control the situation.
The High Court had termed the state’s coronavirus testing policy as an artificial method to control the number of cases.
It had also said the Civil Hospital was worse than a dungeon and that conditions prevailing there for patients were distressing, painful, and pathetic.
પ્રવર્તમાન લૉકડાઉનની સ્થિતિમાં શહેરી નગરજનોની સાથોસાથ આંતરિયાળ વિસ્તારના નાગરિકો સુધી સ્વાસ્થ્ય સેવાઓ પહોંચાડવાના હેતુથી રાજ્ય સરકાર દ્વારા શરુ કરાયેલ 'ટેલીમેડીસીન હેલ્પલાઇન-1100' પર પ્રથમ 50 દિવસમાં જ 11,000 થી વધારે દર્દીઓને આરોગ્યલક્ષી માર્ગદર્શન અને સારવાર પૂરી પાડવામાં આવી. pic.twitter.com/qk8QRUBd85
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) May 24, 2020
“Gujarat High Court has asked some questions, given some guidelines, suggested some measures, and given some opinion. The chief minister, law minister, I had a detailed meeting with advocate general Kamal Trivedi and the state government will file its reply next week,” Deputy CM and Health Minister Nitin Patel told reporters.
‘હું પણ કોરોના વોરિયર’ અભિયાન અંતર્ગત પ્રસિદ્ધ ગુજરાતી કલાકાર શ્રી આરોહી પટેલ અને શ્રી આરતી પટેલનું સંબોધન.
#HuPanCoronaWarriorWatch :https://t.co/plignWLo6y
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) May 24, 2020
On the HC’s question on how many times the health minister had visited Civil Hospital, Patel said, “Though I would not like to comment on matters which are under the consideration of the high court, for the allegations which have been levelled against me personally, I will say that in the last two months I have visited the city civil hospital five times.”
જાહેરનામું:- ફોજદારી કાર્યરીતી અધિનિયમ સને ૧૯૭૩(૧૯૭૪ ના નં.૨) ની કલમ-૧૪૪ અન્વયે કાઢેલ હુકમ.#AhmedabadPolice @GujaratPolice pic.twitter.com/aD5jIYGGIx
— Ahmedabad Police અમદાવાદ પોલીસ (@AhmedabadPolice) May 24, 2020
“Though my age is 64 and being a senior citizen, I am advised not to venture out of home, for the last 55 days, I have worked without taking a break,” he said, adding he attended core committee meetings on the outbreak daily and personally intervened in many health department issues.
કેન્દ્રીય આવાસ અને શહેરી વિકાસ મંત્રી શ્રી હરદીપસિંહ પુરીએ મંગળવારના રોજ શહેરોના ગાર્બેજ ફ્રી સ્ટાર રેટિંગના પરિણામો જાહેર કર્યા હતાં જે ૨૫ સોલીડ વેસ્ટ મેનેજમેન્ટ્સના પેરામીટરની ચકાસણીના આધારે નક્કી કરવામાં આવ્યા છે. pic.twitter.com/lUvROTKAey
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) May 24, 2020
He said the state government had arranged for beds in large numbers, medicine, medical equipment, PPE kits, and had also implemented the most severe lockdown to contain the outbreak.
કોરોના સામે લડતા ડોક્ટર્સ, પોલીસ સ્ટાફ અને સફાઈ કર્મીઓની જેમ તમે પણ બની શકો છો કોરોના વોરિયર. આ લડાઈ કોઈ એક માણસ કે સમાજ કે દેશની નથી, આ લડાઈ છે આખી દુનિયાની કોરોના સામે
કોરોના સામે જીતવા માટે જાગૃતિ કેળવો અને અન્ય લોકોને પણ તેનું મહત્વ સમજાવો#GujaratFightsCovid19 pic.twitter.com/ipTzyG0vNC
— Gujarat Police (@GujaratPolice) May 24, 2020
Patel also took a swipe at the opposition Congress and said this was not the time to play politics, adding that everyone knew the condition in Maharashtra, which has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, and where the party was a constituent of the ruling MVA government.
આણંદ જિલ્લામાં છેલ્લા ત્રણેક મહિના થી ચાલી રહેલા લોક ડાઉનના સમય ગાળામાં ખેડુતોને ઝડપથી અને ઓછા સમયમાં પાક તૈયાર થાય અને રોકડા નાણાં મળે તે માટે સરકાર ખૂબ સંવેદનસીલ છે. રાજ્ય સરકાર ના ખેતી વાડી અધિકારી શ્રી ,બાગાયત ,અને આત્મા પ્રોજેક્ટ, દ્વારા માર્ગ દર્શન કરવા માં આવે છે… pic.twitter.com/oIFVBqX1iL
— Gujarat Information (@InfoGujarat) May 24, 2020
“The Gujarat government, from CM to ministers, officials to those working on the ground, its corona warriors, have done a tremendous job during the pandemic. At such a time, it is important to appreciate those who are fighting against this invisible virus so that their morale remains high,” Patel said.
State records 394 new coronavirus cases, 29 deaths as total number of infections mount to 14,063
Gujarat on Sunday reported 394 new coronavirus cases and 29 deaths, including 28 from the worst-hit Ahmedabad, taking the overall case count to 14,063 and fatalities to 858, a Health official said.
COViD patients receiving worldclass care @ CIMS WEST HOSPITAL with excellent services for all Govt/AMC patients including great food from @prideplazahotel alongwith NON COViD care @ CIMS EAST HOSPITAL (non COViD) together to serve Ahmedabad @cimshospital pic.twitter.com/VKtjjZVMcn
— Keyur Parikh Marengo CIMS (@drkeyurparikh) May 24, 2020
A total of 21 of the 29 deceased- 28 from Ahmedabad and one from Surat-were suffering from comorbidities, the official said.
The number of the people recovered from COVID-19 rose to 6,412 with 243 patients discharged from hospitals in the day.
પાટણની ધારપુર હોસ્પિટલમાં એક 80 વર્ષની સ્ત્રી,જે કાર્ડિયોરેસ્પિરેટરી સ્ટેટસ,હાયપરટેન્શન અને 10 વર્ષથી પથારીવશ સ્થિતિની ગંભીર હાલતમાં #coronapositive થતા તે #Isolation વોર્ડમાં દાખલ હતાઅન્યની મદદ વગર પોતાનું કોઇ કામ કરી શકતા નથી.તેનેઆજે ધારપુર હોસ્પિટલમાંથી ડિસ્ચાર્જ આપવામાં આવ્યો pic.twitter.com/SmshWO4ETo
— DD News Gujarati (@DDNewsGujarati) May 24, 2020
Gujarat now has 6,793 active cases, of which 67 are on ventilators, the official added.
Ahmedabad now accounts for 10,280 COVID-19 cases and 697 deaths of the total 14,063 cases in Gujarat, the official said.
✅ કન્ટેન્મેન્ટ ઝોન સિવાયના તમામ હીરા ઉદ્યોગના પ્રોસેસીગ એકમો ખુલ્લા રાખી શકાશે
✅ પશ્ચિમ વિસ્તાર ઉપરાંત પૂર્વ વિસ્તારોમાં પણ ઉત્પાદનની પ્રવૃત્તિઓને છૂટ
✅ રાજય સરકારના ઉદ્યોગ વિભાગના વખતોવખતના સ્ટાન્ડર્ડ ઓપરેટીંગ પ્રોસીજર અને સૂચનાઓને આધીન રહેશે#AmdavadAMC pic.twitter.com/R1rgApzoLp— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) May 24, 2020
The number of the COVID-19 cases in Surat and Vadodara stands at 1,320 and 836, respectively.
Gujarat has so far tested 1,82,869 samples, the official said, adding that a total of 4,65,312 people are placed under quarantine in the state.
Gujarat COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 14,063, new cases 394, deaths 858, number of discharged people 6,412, active cases 6,793 and people tested so far 1,82,869.
Botad district administrative machinery worked hard to ensure return of 757 labourers from Bihar. Medical screening was done and food was provided. @GujLabEmpDept @InfoGujarat pic.twitter.com/qWxoloCw0l
— Collector & DM Botad (@Collectorbotad) May 24, 2020
2 killed in Maharashtra as man asks Gujarat-returnee to get quarantined
A man and his relative were killed in the early hours of Sunday in Latur in Maharashtra in a mob attack after they asked a Gujarat-returnee truck driver to get quarantined amid the coronavirus outbreak, police said.
The incident happened in Bolegaon village in Nilanga tehsil, over 275 kilometres from here, at around 2:30 am, a Kasar Shirshi police station official said.
“Driver Vidyaman Baramde, who lives in Mumbai, returned to Bolegaon from Gujarat and deceased Shahaji Patil asked him to get home quarantined. However, Baramde went to his sister’s place in Chandori village and returned with a mob which thrashed Patil (50) and his relative Vaibhav (24), both of whom died in the attack,” he said.
The official said a murder case had been registered and eight people have been detained.
