{"id":131820,"date":"2020-07-18T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=131820"},"modified":"2020-07-18T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:09:10","slug":"random-tests-for-covid-19-to-start-soon-libang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/random-tests-for-covid-19-to-start-soon-libang\/","title":{"rendered":"Random tests for Covid-19 to start soon: Libang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 17:<\/strong> Health Minister Alo Libang has said that random testing for Covid-19 will start soon in the Itanagar capital region.<br \/>\nTalking to the press here on Friday evening, Libang said the health department is working out a plan and will start random testing at the earliest.<br \/>\n&#8220;Till now testing has been limited to the primary contacts of Covid-19 patients. But the department will ramp up the testing and will now conduct random testing. Also, more testing kits are being ordered. It will be shared with all the districts,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe minister also said that TrueNat machines would be provided to all the districts, so that Covid-19 tests can be done at the district level. He informed that the procurement order has already been made in this regard.<br \/>\nOn the issue of unavailability of medicines to treat symptomatic Covid-19 patients, Libang agreed that there has been delay on the part of the department in the procurement process. However, he said &#8220;medicines have started to arrive in the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe minister also informed that the government is procuring 20 new ambulances.<br \/>\n&#8220;Four ambulances have already arrived, and the remaining 16 will reach within one week.<br \/>\nFour are being checked and, once given a green signal, will be used. The ambulances will be distributed across the state on need basis,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nLibang informed that patients with mild symptoms will be treated at the prefabricated hospital being established in Midpu.<br \/>\n&#8220;The prefabricated hospital in Midpu will be a 35-bedded dedicated Covid health centre. It is being readied,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe informed that the MLA apartments will be turned into a 40-bedded Covid hospital, and that it will have 10 beds with ICU facilities and will only treat serious patients.<br \/>\nLibang urged the people to stop indulging in blame games over Covid management.<br \/>\n&#8220;Before criticizing the department, I appeal to the people to suggest to us how to improve. We will take suggestions seriously and will work to improve wherever it is needed,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe minister also sought support from community-based organizations and student bodies in the battle against Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jul 17: Health Minister Alo Libang has said that random testing for Covid-19 will start soon in the Itanagar capital region. Talking to the press here on Friday evening, Libang said the health department is working out a plan and will start random testing at the earliest. &#8220;Till now testing has been limited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}