Multiple measures required to control Covid: TS Health Secretary
Health Secretary SAM Rizvi underlined the need to extend better treatment to the Covid patients in the government hospitals
Suryapet: Health Secretary SAM Rizvi stated that door-to-door fever survey, increasing testing for Covid-19 and shifting the Covid-19 patients to isolation centres, would help in controlling the spread of the virus. He said the number of rapid antigen tests would be increased at all Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the district.
Along with Director of Public Health Dr G Srinivasa Rao, the Health Secretary held a review meeting with the officials on COVID-19 situation especially the high positivity rate for Coronavirus at the collectorate complex in the district headquarters on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Rizvi underlined the need to extend better treatment to the Covid patients in the government hospitals. He instructed the officials to shift the Corona patients, who were in home isolation in the mandals of Ananthagiri, Mothe and Arvepally, to government run isolation centrtes. The district authorities should set up isolation centres at all grama panchayats. He also insisted on taking up special measures in the areas from which a high number of Covid-19 cases were reported.
Reminding that tribal population was also significant in number in the district, the Health Secretary instructed the officials to arrange mobile Corona testing centres to conduct tests for them. The officials should focus on bringing down the positivity percentage to five percent within one week, he added.
District Collector T Vinay Krishna Reddy said that lockdown was being strictly implemented in the district. He said that required facilities were set up in government schools and hostels to open isolation centres at the village level. Out of about 7.2 lakh persons covered under door-to-door fever survey, around 20,246 symptomatic persons were identified and medicine kits were supplied to 16,741 patients.
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