Lucknow, April 18: The Uttar Pradesh CM Helpline is proving to be very helpful for people infected with coronavirus, out of 8,16,962 people who have been infected with the virus the Helpline has addressed issues of 8,13,930 people till date.
The toll free number 1076 has provided different kinds of support to those who call.
The CM Helpline has also contacted 13,526 corona positive patients living in home, or hospital isolation so far to enquire about their health and offer them appropriate medical advice regarding doses of medicines and quarantine rules, officials here on Sunday said.
Similarly, the helpline has called 2,477 Covid positive patients to get details of their treatment and condition.
Besides, the helpline has contacted a total of 6,100 Covid positive individuals to date to offer them advice on home isolation, to get information from them on any other suspected case in their families and also making arrangements for sending them medicines.
The helpline is receiving a large number of calls on a daily basis from those seeking information on how to fight the virus. In this context, the helpline staff have consulted altogether 71,135 monitoring committees to keep track of outsiders coming to their localities and also arranging tests for suspected Covid patients promptly.
Furthermore, around 500 employees work in three shifts at the helpline’s headquarters to listen to corona related problems of people and help them find ways to resolve them.
Apart from this, following an order of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the helpline called 2,115 village heads and 1,638 councillors to seek information from them on the status of the special cleanliness and communicable disease control campaign in their respective areas.
A total of 2,14,140 people have been contacted in this regard so far.
The CM Helpline has also contacted several patients of seven major Covid hospitals to get their feedback on the provision of medical facilities, sanitation and toilets and apprised the superintendents of the concerned hospitals and the district magistrates of the concerned districts about it.

People from villages and towns are telling their problems to the helpline staff freely to get the required support within a few hours.
Meanwhile, with CM Yogi Adityanath directing monitoring committees to inform people about the corona protocol, the work of the helpline has increased substantially of late. The helpline also informs people about the sample testing facilities in the state, and how to treat Covid patients.(UNI)