Now, community health centre level teams to implement anti-covid measures at ground zero
LUCKNOW: Anticipating third Covid 19 wave, the district administration has constituted Community Health Centre (CHC) level teams in the areas that remained affected during first and second Covid wave. Officials said the teams would have a crucial role to play in keeping a check on the outbreak of the virus in the Covid-hit localities.
“The teams will work on the most basic level. It will create anti-covid awareness among locals, ensure implementation of the protocol, ensure social distancing, keep check on mass gathering, set up Covid help desk, set up testing units and would also look after contact tracing and treatment part,” said Abhishek Prakash, district magistrate. The teams will also look into arrangements at the hospitals in the area to ensure treatment of the Covid and postcovid patients.
Not only this, the DM said that the teams would also check the availability of oxygen in the respective medical establishments and also the availability of oxygen concentrators.
“The teams will also co-ordinate with the active Nigrani Samitis in the areas and would make sure that testing, contact tracing and medicine distribution is done among the patients in the affected areas,” he said.
Also, the teams would ensure that the Covid protocols are followed at the ration shops, markets, weekly markets and shops. Besides, they would also ensure the regular fogging and sanitisation of the crow prone areas in their locality. The DM said there would be regular availability of the Rapid Response Teams (RRT), Surveillance teams at the CHCS. Also, there would be a permanent Covid help desk that would ensure targeted testing and would be well equipped with the testing kits. The administration has also put a check at all exit and entry points of the city, including highways, airport, railway stations, bus stations and toll plaza to check the inbound tourists from the Covid 19 Delta Plus variant vulnerable states including Maharashtra, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh or Karnataka.
He had also directed the officials to carry out a study of the reasons that led to infection in the hotspot areas that were identified in 1st and 2nd waves.