PRADHANS, ANMS SHOULD BE ENGAGED FOR RURAL MEDICINE STOCK: EXPERT

LUCKNOW : Dr Ved Prakash, HoD of pulmonary critical care medicine at KGMU, said gram pradhans, ANMs (auxiliary nurse midwives) and ASHA workers (accredited social health activists) should be engaged to keep a stock of medicines in rural areas so that patients are not deprived.

“If a few cases have come in a village, then all fever cases should be given attention as Covid patients. Any person with symptoms should be made to walk 500 metres or 700 steps in 6 minutes (walk test). If they are unable to do, they should be treated as patients of chest infection with adequate dose of steroids,” he said.

He said, “Treatment in village should be aggressive and not gradual as such a treatment methodology can allow the infection to grow and bring complexities. Each fever case should start the protocol medicine as soon as fever comes.”