Improve Covid treatment &surveillance in district: DM

Kanpur: In a bid to bolster treatment and surveillance of Covid-19 patients, district magistrate Alok Tewari has directed Asha workers to contact all the novel coronavirus patients under home isolation in their respective areas and gather details of their health condition regularly.
In a review meeting on Monday evening at Integrated Command & Control Centre in Kanpur Municipal Corporation building, the DM said Asha workers must be equipped with pulse oximeters and thermometers when they visit Covid-19 patients under home isolation in their areas.
He also asked them to prepare a separate register of symptomatic patients and coordinate in their testing.
Tewari also asked officials to depute a field supervisor with each rapid response team.
All the symptomatic patients as well as old patients who test positive should be sent to Covid hospitals. Get a Covid hospital allotted for them and ensure availability of ambulances for their transportation, he said. Only young and middle age asymptomatic patients should be permitted home isolation, he added.
The DM also urged all doctors to collect each and every information of home isolated patients and ensure those not showing improvement are admitted to hospital.
He stressed on making contact tracing more effective and better and said members of the rapid response team should update all details of Covid patients in record. He asked health officials to ensure that sample collection, contact tracing and feeding targets are completed daily.
Chief development officer Dr Mahendra Kumar, ADM (finance & revenue) Virendra Pandey, additional DM, civil supplies Basant Agarwal, chief medical officer Dr Anil Mishra, city magistrate and other district officials were present in the meeting.
On Tuesday, the DM visited Kanshiram hospital and checked the facilities through CCTV cameras and communicated with doctors at ICU by video calling and asked them to ensure quality treatment to all patients. Chief medical superintendent said all doctors were performing their duties as per roster and added that he was himself monitoring patients and special attention was being paid to patients in ICU.
Tewari asked him to ensure availability of oxygen so that there is no shortage.