Coimbatore: Less than 24 hours after the state government announced that 23 people within the corporation limits have tested positive for Covid-19, the civic body’s health department is getting ready for a massive door-to-door screening drive to check for people with symptoms of the disease, including fever and respiratory distress.
People with the symptoms will be referred to the ESI Hospital for testing and observation.
Last week, the corporation had implemented a containment plan after a positive case was reported from Saibaba Colony. Health workers covered 10,000 houses in the five kilometres radius within three days.
This time, the workers have to cover 23 locations spread from R S Puram in west Coimbatore to Cheran Ma Nagar and Vilankurichi in the east, from Ramanathapuram and Podanur in central Coimbatore to Kuniamuthur and Sundarapuram in south.
Civic body officials on Monday conducted a briefing session for the doctors in primary health centres on the containment plan guidelines, modifications that must be made and staff mobilization, among others. “We are involving 19 primary health centres in the exercise that will start on Tuesday. As many as 180 teams will be involved in the drive. The number looks small considering we used 180 nurses in Saibaba Colony and KK Pudur alone, but we will manage,” said a corporation official. “The doctors will draw the five-kilometre radius around houses of the positive individuals, give priority to the building, street and parallel streets and then move outwards.”
Asked if the numbers are scaring the health workers, doctors insisted the mood is upbeat.
People with the symptoms will be referred to the ESI Hospital for testing and observation.
Last week, the corporation had implemented a containment plan after a positive case was reported from Saibaba Colony. Health workers covered 10,000 houses in the five kilometres radius within three days.
This time, the workers have to cover 23 locations spread from R S Puram in west Coimbatore to Cheran Ma Nagar and Vilankurichi in the east, from Ramanathapuram and Podanur in central Coimbatore to Kuniamuthur and Sundarapuram in south.
Civic body officials on Monday conducted a briefing session for the doctors in primary health centres on the containment plan guidelines, modifications that must be made and staff mobilization, among others. “We are involving 19 primary health centres in the exercise that will start on Tuesday. As many as 180 teams will be involved in the drive. The number looks small considering we used 180 nurses in Saibaba Colony and KK Pudur alone, but we will manage,” said a corporation official. “The doctors will draw the five-kilometre radius around houses of the positive individuals, give priority to the building, street and parallel streets and then move outwards.”
Asked if the numbers are scaring the health workers, doctors insisted the mood is upbeat.
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