South Delhi Municipal Corporation trying to get PPE from Jalandhar

NEW DELHI: Amid growing demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE),South Delhi Municipal corporation is trying to procure them for field workers, sanitation workers and doctors from Jalandhar-based manufacturers.
A senior municipal corporation official said that for various tasks like removing biomedical waste from quarantined houses, disinfecting sites where corona positive cases are found and for doctors engaged in screening of suspected patients, the corporation needs about 7,500 protective suits next month.Currently, it has only 2,600 suits.
"We are looking for other avenues to ensure a steady supply of protective suits. We don't want to be caught on wrong foot in case the disease spreads further," the official added.
"On Sunday, we received 500 new kits. We expect to procure another 900 kits next week. The idea is not to let the inventory reach a critical level. If more Nizamuddin-like hotspots are found, we will require a large number of kits," said the official.
SDMC had deployed 95 public health workers and sanitation workers during the mammoth disinfection drive in Nizamuddin. The demand for PPE had grown manifold then. To ensure there is no shortage of the protective kits in near future, the civic body has already tied up with the local cantonment board.
On March 24, SDMC had announced that it would launch waste collection drive at thousands of houses under its jurisdiction where people were quarantined.