Government departments roped in for Covid awareness in Kanpur

KANPUR: Not only the health department, other departments like education, panchayati raj, child development, nutrition etc have also started campaigns to create awareness among people about Covid-19 telling them how to protect themselves and their families from the deadly virus.
In the ongoing months of nutrition and communicable diseases control, representatives of education and panchayati raj departments along with Asha and Aanganwadi workers are reaching to the people informing them about protection against Covid-19 infection.
The teams, besides stressing on social distancing and use of masks, also tell people that since there is no vaccine for coronavirus, they have to follow a three-point programme--use of masks, social distancing and observing hand hygiene, said chief medical officer Dr Anil Kumar Mishra here on Wednesday.
He said the health department’s main focus is on contact tracing in order to break the infection chain.
Uma Devi, an Asha worker of Kakwan block said since March she had been visiting houses to inform people about the ways to protect themselves from coronavirus. “We have noticed a change in the people as they have started using masks and maintaining social distancing” she said.
Ratna Srivastava, an officer of child development project in Bidhnoo said, “She discusses preventive measures with every person she meets under her project”. Suman Chaturvedi, an anganwadi worker said while distributing nutritional food she tells people about Covid-19 and the preventive measures to be taken against it.
Manager, district community procedure Yogendra Pal said during all community activities and programmes the workers also tell people and the beneficiaries about Covid-19 and make them aware about precautions to be taken to protect them from the deadly disease.