Ggm looks to curb Covid in villages
To curb the spread of Covid-19 in Gurugram’s rural areas, the administration began work to set up isolation centres in 166 villages that will cover all the panchayats in the district on Friday. They are likely to start admitting patients from Sunday.
Officials said that each facility will have five to 15 beds to treat mild patients for now. They may increase it depending on the number of positive cases.
The isolation centres are being set up jointly by the health department and district development and panchayat department. These facilities will be set up in buildings developed by panchayats, or local government schools and community centres. The health department will provide the medical staff.
“The process of setting up beds in isolation centres at 166 locations has begun and most would be ready to admit patients from Sunday morning. The patients will be given food and treatment. In case, a patient is serious and needs hospitalisation then they will be recommended to sub-divisional and district hospitals,” said Narender Sarwan, district development and panchayat officer.
Sarwan said that 50 teams of health workers and gram panchayat personnel began door-todoor screening at these villages on Friday.
Gurugram chief medical officer Virender Yadav said, “These teams comprise an ASHA worker, anganwadi worker, a schoolteacher, a village official and a health worker, will take samples for antigen and RTPCR tests.”
As per the details shared by the authorities, 15 to 20 villages in the district have a significantly high number Covid-19 patients between 15 and 20 cases in a village - and they would enforce strict social distancing measures in these areas. These villages include Bhorakalan, Palasoli,
Ghamroj, Hajipur, Patli, Garhi, Gudhana and a few other villages
The health department had earlier identified seven high-risk areas, in which 138 teams were deployed to conduct mass surveillance and door-to-door rapid antigen tests from May 8. High risk areas are defined on the basis of rise in Covid 19 cases compared to last surge in specific areas, said the health department.
The health department data shows that in April, the test positivity rate was 16.6% in Bhorakalan, 19.3% in Bhondsi, 17.7% in Farrukhnagar and 14% in Mandpura. Kasan primary health centre (PHC) in Pataudi and Palra PHC in Sohna showed the highest positivity rate, of almost 21%, officials said.
The district administration meanwhile asked the people in rural areas to get tested as early as possible in case of a symptom such as fever, cold, cough appears. “The people must get themselves tested at the earliest and isolate themselves from other family members in case of Covid symptoms to prevent its spread,” said Yash Garg, deputy commissioner, Gurugram.
Defunct hospital to be operationalised again
The district panchayat department on Saturday said that it took over a defunct private hospital in Bhorakalan and will make it operational from Sunday.
“It will add 50 Covid beds. We have supplied power, water and other utilities. This hospital will be for mild to moderately ill patients and we have arranged oxygen concentrators for 10,” said district development and panchayat officersarwan.
Sarwan said doctors and paramedical staff at this hospital will be deployed by health department and will be overseen by the chief medical officer.
“Basic medical equipment and medicines have been arranged,” he said