Amid rise in cases, East Singhbhum plans health check-up from Sept 7- 14

Jamshedpur: With no let-up in coronavirus infections in East Singhbhum, the district health unit will conduct a special awareness and check-up drive in urban, suburban and rural areas between September 7 and 14 for early detection of cases.
On Saturday, civil surgeon R N Jha said from September to 10, an awareness drive on Covid safety measures will be conducted among the residents. A survey will also be held during that period in which the respondents will have to share their health history and inform the visiting teams about any complications that they may have been experiencing for the past few years.
“Along with the Covid-19 suspects, we have to keep data of the people who are suffering from cardiac ailments, diabetes, liver or kidney diseases, obesity, among others,” an official at civil surgeon’s office said. He added that the health check-up will focus on those above 35 years of age.
In the next three days (from September 11-14), door-to-door tests will be conducted by the health teams.
Meanwhile, the health department will now convert the JRD Tata Sports Complex to into Covid care centre. “The number of beds in the centre will be finalised soon,” the civil surgeon said. Jha added that either the halls or the separate tents within the complex will be converted into Covid care rooms.
The district health department is also scouting for new treatment facilities for the virus patients.
Presently, the district has four Covid care centers — Professional college (in Sidhgora), Constable Training Centre (in Musaboni) and two graduate trainee hostels of Tata Steel in Kadma.
As of Saturday morning, East Singhbhum had 8,238 cases, of which 2,687 were active. As many as 207 have succumbed to the virus while 5,344 patients have recovered.