Gandhinagar : ‘Maru Gam Corona Mukt Gam’ campaign launched by the Governor and chief minister. Governor of Gujarat Acharya Devvrat and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani digitally launched a 15 day’s campaign “Maru Gam Corona Mukt Gam”( My Village Corona Free Village) in 17 thousand villages of the state. expressed his determination that with the cooperation of rural manpower and public awareness, this campaign will be carried out for next 15 days from today 1st May the foundation day of Gujarat. In the presence of Governor of Gujarat Acharya Devvrat, CM had a video meeting with the village sarpanches, district-taluka panchayat presidents, office bearers, leaders and ministers in charge of the district, officials through CM Dashboard to participate and perform their duties in 15 day’s campaign “Maru Gam Corona Mukt Gam”. The Chief Minister appealed to the villagers in every village of the state to set up isolation centers, covid care centers in places like school complexes, community halls, vacant houses etc and isolate the villagers with symptoms like cold, cough and common fever.
The CM called upon the village leaders to take up the provision of standard medicines, Vitamin-C, azithromycin, paracetamol as well as accommodation for the people living in such isolation centres. In this regard, CM said that a committee of 10 persons shall be formed in each village and arrange for tracing-tracking-treatment as well village surveillance and sanitization. The CM also urged the villagers to strictly follow the Covid Curfew for 15 days and block the entry and exit of the villages for outsiders in the village. If the guidelines issued by the government are followed strictly than surely the transmission of Corona will be stopped in villages. The Chief Minister expressed confidence that if every villager would take collective care of his family as well as the village and adopt rules like social distance, masks and frequent hand washing than surely the second wave of corona infection can be stopped from spreading. The CM also described the strategy adopted by the state government for the treatment of corona infections, bed, oxygen system etc. He said that there were 41,870 beds in the state hospitals in March which has reached over 1 lakh today. Oxygen and ICU beds have also increased from 16043 to 57073 beds.
We have been able to curb the death toll to some extent as a result of the efforts made by government to strengthen the health system as well facilities in the state. More than two lakh medical-paramedical staff and other departmental personnel of the state are fighting against Corona day and night without getting tired, losing hope or stopping themselves, whom CM congratulated. CM also expressed his hope that all the youth of the state and people above the age of 45 would be vaccinated and participate in the fight against corona. Governor said that the Gujarat Government under the leadership of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani is fighting against the pandemic vigorously. From district magistrates to health workers in the state, everyone has become Covid warrior. On the foundation day of Gujarat, Governor communicated through CM dashboard and detailed on the second wave of corona and the precautionary steps to be taken to stop the spread of corona. Everyone should avoid crowded places, always wear a face mask, properly sanitize and wash their hands properly. If every person in the state pledges to save himself from the corona, then the whole village-state must be saved. The Governor further said that, vaccine has been introduced but then also we have to follow guidelines strictly issued by the government. He added that the district magistrates can raise manpower at the village level with the help of NCC, Red Cross, NSS and organization like the Nehru Yuva Kendra. Minister of State for Panchayats JaydrathSinh Parmar welcomed all the Sarpanch and rural office bearers assuring their active cooperation in making this campaign a success. Secretary to the Chief Minister Ashwini Kumar made a presentation on the day-to-day activities performed by GoG to curb the spread of Corona and the success of the state government in controlling Covid as well the treatment process being followed so far.
