A three-member Central team is visiting Jammu on May 16 (Sunday) to find out the reasons of spike in COVID cases and resultant deaths in Jammu province and assisting the Health Department of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in COVID-19 control and containment measures.
Official sources told Excelsior that taking serious note of the high mortality rate in Jammu province due to COVID-19, Disaster Management (DM) Cell, Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) has deployed a 3-member Central team to assess the reasons of rising Corona deaths in Jammu and accordingly suggest remedial measures to the UT administration to control the same.
“The Central team will comprise of Dr Pranay Verma, Joint Director, Epidemiology, National Center of Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, Dr Mahesh Waghmare, Microbiology Department, NCDC Delhi and Dr Navneet Sharma, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh,” sources informed.
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