Integrated Covid command & control centre set up to check rising cases

Varanasi: As Covid-19 menace reaches an alarming stage in Varanasi, an integrated Covid Command and Control Centre has been established at Smart City Limited’s Kashi integrated Command and Control Centre (KICCC) to combat the epidemic on Monday.
The district has been witnessing addition of 100 new Covid-19 positive cases on every alternate day for past 10 days despite precautionary measures like curtailing the market timings, checking drives against those avoiding masks and moving on roads purposelessly.
Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal has assigned separate tasks to 11 additional CMOs for tackling Covid related challenges. On Monday morning, district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma took major decisions as per which an integrated Covid-19 control and command centre was established with KICCC by appointing ADM (finance and revenue) Sanjay Kumar as its nodal officer while deputy collector Vinay Kumar Singh and deputy CMO Dr Suresh Singh were asked to assist him.
From KICCC’s command centre at Shahid Park in Sigra area, this team will work round-the-clock for proper coordination with the officials of administration, health department, urban development, panchayati raj, police and other departments. THe team will monitor the surveillance teams engaged in collection of samples and will also give detailed report to the state government.
Its other tasks include finalising strategy for testing, its execution, contact tracing, immediate hospitalisation of positive cases, keeping watch on the arrangements at Covid hospitals and taking feedback from patients, arrangement of ambulances, special sanitisation drives on weekend, real time monitoring of admissions and discharge of patients for feeding of portal concerned. Sharma made it clear that in case of laxity at any level stern action will be taken against the responsible person.
The DM convened another meeting in which action plan for 15 mobile ward clinics were reviewed. During this meeting he asked the officials to ensure that there is no delay in hospitalising positive cases and to complete the process of contact tracing within two days.
The in-charges of primary health centres were asked to ensure minimum 35 samplings for RTPCR and antigen tests each day and plan for sampling and hospitalisation at their own level.
Checking people with pulse oximetre and blood pressure equipment during door-to-door visit by the health department teams and carrying antibiotic and other necessary medicine including Ayurvedic stimulators and homeopathic medicines in sufficient quantity in their vehicles has been made mandatory. DM also asked the officials to provide medicines as needed at doorstep after checking them and ensure immediate hospitalisation in case of reduced level of oxygen. Directives for special watch on over 30,000 cardiac, diabetic and blood pressure patients were also issued.