Mangaluru : BJP state president and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has created a district-level war room to fight Covid-19 spread and help people.

The war room created in the MP’s office will be headed by Nithin Kumar, chairman of Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation and Sudheer Shetty, Mangaluru City Corporation corporator. Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath and district BJP president Sudarshana M are its coordinators.

It has separate wings to handle hospital bed accommodation, ventilators, ambulance arrangement, vaccination, medicines, coordination for Ayushman Bharat – Arogya Karnataka (AB-ArK) scheme and cremation.

BJP Dakshina Kannada district president M Sudarshana said people may contact the war room at 0824-2448888/ 2950445/ 9483496726/ 8762632174 to get help. Coordinators have been deputed to help patients get admission in hospitals, arrange ambulances, ventilators, medicines and vaccination. Coordinators will also make arrangements for the cremation of dead and to help patients avail benefits under the AB-ArK scheme, he said.