Govt clarifies: Not sitting on international Covid aid, distributed across India
The Centre clarified that even though the Standard Operating Procedure for allocations was issued by the health ministry on May 2, the work on allocation and distribution of international aid material to the states and Union Territories had started immediately as and when the aid arrived.
FollowThe Centre on Tuesday rejected media reports that claimed that while the first consignment of international Covid-19 assistance arrived in India on April 25, the Centre took seven days to frame the Standard Operating Procedure to distribute the medical supplies among states.
Stating that some television news channels misinterpreted factual information, the Centre clarified that even though the Standard Operating Procedure for allocations was issued by the health ministry on May 2, the work on allocation and distribution of international aid material to the states and Union Territories had started immediately as and when the aid arrived.
The Centre claimed that the process to track and clear within hours Covid-related imports like oxygen and oxygen-related equipment on arrival had been streamlined. A systematic mechanism for allocating the support supplies had already been put into place.
The government said that the Health Ministry set up a cell on April 26 to coordinate the receipt and allocation of foreign relief material as grants, aid and donations. Besides this, a high-level committee under Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and comprising of officials from MEA, health ministry and other ministries had also been formed to oversee the whole operation.
In a statement, the Centre said the allocations are done keeping in mind equitable distribution and the load on tertiary health care facilities.
The government shared details of where the received aid material had been sent:
Delhi NCR
1. LHMC Delhi
2. Safdarjung Hospital Delhi
3. RML Hospital
4. AIIMS Delhi
5. DRDO Delhi
6. 2 hospitals in Delhi (Moti Nagar & Pooth Kalan)
7. NITRD Delhi
8. ITBP Noida
Northeast India
9. NEIGRIHMS Shillong
10. RIMS Imphal
North India
11. AIIMS Bathinda
12. PGI Chandigarh
13. DRDO Dehradun
14. AIIMS Jhajjar
Eastern India
15. AIIMS Rishikesh
16. AIIMS Rae Bareli
17. AIIMS Deoghar
18. AIIMS Raipur
19. AIIMS Bhubaneswar
20. AIIMS Patna
21. DRDO Patna
22. AIIMS Kalyani
23. DRDO Varanasi
24. DRDO Lucknow
25. District Hospital Pilibhit
Western India
26. AIIMS Jodhpur
27. DRDO Dehradun
28. DRDO Ahmedabad
29. Govt Satellite Hospital Jaipur
Central India
30. AIIMS Bhopal
South India
31. AIIMS Mangalagiri
32. AIIMS Bibinagar
33. JIPMER Puducherry
Central government agencies and Public Sector Undertakings
34. CGHS
35. CRPF
36. SAIL
37. Railways
38. ICMR
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