Wednesday, 28 April 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Following special efforts initiated by chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat, 7,500 Remdesivir injections reached Uttarakhand in the state aircraft on Tuesday. On the CM’s directions, the state aircraft had been sent to Ahmedabad in the morning. The aircraft returned with the injections at night. Following this, the state is unlikely to face shortage of Remdesivir injections in the treatment of specific Covid cases during the next few days.
According to official sources, with the lot which arrived on Tuesday night, the state now has adequate stock of Remdesivir injections. The CM directed the health department to ascertain the use and ratio of Remdesivir in the districts and send the same in adequate quantity to the districts. He stressed that shortage of this injection should not be faced by any Covid patient in need of it in the state. In the past 72 hours, about 11,000 Remdesivir injections have been procured by the state. Last Saturday, about 3,500 injections had been supplied to the state while in the next 24 hours, 2,000 more Remdesivr injections are slated to reach the state.
