Chennai: The Tamilnadu government has appointed six nodal officers to the Unified Command Centre (UCC) that will function as the Covid-19 War Room.
An official release said Darez Ahamed, Executive Director, Guidance, will head the UCC and will be in charge of overall co-ordination of the command centre.
The Nodal officers were appointed from various departments.
K Nanthakumar, Secretary, TNPSC, will be the nodal officer for State oxygen monitoring and emergency response. He will also co-ordinate with the Tamilnadu Medical Supplies Corporation on all issues related to liquid medical oxygen and liaise with private hospitals for their oxygen requirements.
Dr S Uma, Additional Collector (development), will be the nodal officer for bed management in both government and private hospitals.
Dr S Vineet, Joint Managing Director, TANGEDCO, will be the nodal officer for field inspection of all empanelled and non-empanelled private medical college hospitals in and around Chennai.
He will be assisted by R Ishwarya, Assistant Collector, Vellore, and Anamika Ramesh, Assistant Collector, Tiruvallur.
K P Karthikeyan, Executive Director, TIDCO, will be the nodal officer for major Government Medical Colleges (dedicate COVID-19 hospitals) and other dedicated Covid-19 hospitals in and around Chennai.
R Alagumeena, General Manager, TANFINET, will be the nodal officer for maintaining quality and responsiveness of the War Room.
Ahamed has been authorised by the government to depute officers from line departments in Health and Family Welfare for carrying out various tasks entrusted to the War Room.
IAS trainees of 2020 batch will also be part of the field inspection team under the nodal officers and will be deputed on a rotation basis from the districts.