lucknow up medical education minister suresh khanna opened a command centre at jawahar bhawan on tuesday for efficient monitoring of coronavirus outbreak and the preparedness in covid hospitals in states medical colleges and announced a slew of measures for upgrading the medical infrastructure and preparedness for handling corona cases khanna told toi that personal protective equipment ppes and ventilators are being procured on emergency basis and the government has relaxed its procurement policy and specifications to ensure their availability in good numbersthe government has also decided to hire doctors from private nursing homes and exdefence personnel of medical wing for manning the isolation wards in covid hospitals the department is also engaging tent suppliers for setting up makeshift covid hospitals if requiredthe command centre set up at the directorate of medical education in jawahar bhawan would be headed by an ias officer as coordinator and would take feedback from covid hospitals and medical colleges treating coronavirus patientshailing pm narendra modis declaration of a 21day lockdown across the nation khanna said prevention is the best cure in this case so people should follow pms directions in true letter and spiritkhanna also announced to give his one months salary for the battle against corona and said the state is fully prepared to face any situation and there is no need to panickhanna who also holds the portfolio of finance ministry also assured there would be no paucity of funds in facing coronavirus challenge he said the stiff target of having 11000 isolation beds has almost been achieved in private and government medical collegesprincipal secretary medical education rajnish dube said integrated committees have been set up at district level to monitor situationin view of shortage of anesthetists and other experts khanna granted permission for hiring trained and experienced professionals from private nursing homes and hospitals dube added