Nagpur: All citizens must adhere to Covid appropriate behaviour to control the pandemic and failure to comply could lead to a third wave, warned the members of the central health squad which visited six districts of Vidarbha on Thursday. The teams will stay on in the region for the next 2-3 days.
Dr Harshal Salve and Dr PP Joshi were the delegated members for Nagpur district. They lauded the district’s vaccination drive pattern which percolated to the village level. They also urged the officials to lay maximum stress on contract tracing, testing and continuing the multifarious vaccination programme with citizens’ co-operation.
While Dr Salve belongs to Delhi AIIMS, Prof Joshi is from Nagpur AIIMS.
The team, which reviewed the various orders and protocols issued by collector Ravindra Thakare relating to containment zones, home isolation, vaccination and so on, also held a detailed talk with zilla parishad’s chief executive officer Yogesh Kumbhejkar, deputy director of health Dr Sanjay Jaiswal, resident deputy collectors Ravindra Khajanji, Avinash Katode, district health officer Dr Deepak Selokar and others, and also officials of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) which included assistant municipal commissioner Ram Joshi.
Dr Salve and Dr Joshi reviewed the Covid situation and measures taken by the NMC. It also took an overview of the treatment facilities created in the district and health infrastructure being prepared to meet the second wave. The stock of oxygen and Remdesivir also formed a part of the discussion.
District collector Ravindra Thakare said the central team in it’s five-day visit would review the overall situation. “The team would prepare report and submit it to the central government,” he said.
“Efforts should be made to observe the rules of community masking, physical distance and hand hygiene everywhere,” said Dr Sanjay Rai, from AIIMS New Delhi, a member of the team in Amravati.
In Buldhana, the two-member committee took tehsil-wise review of the Covid-19 cases in district. Buldhana is the third worst-hit district in Vidarbha after Nagpur and Amravati. District collector S Ramamurthi said that the members asked information about the cases, mortality rate, positivity rate, daily tests, contract tracing etc.
“They also issued necessary instructions to the officers for control of Covid-19. The team also inspected the immunization centres, beds in Covid-19 hospitals, oxygen beds, ICU units, ventilators,” he said.
In Yavatmal, the central team visited Super Specialty Hospital of the Government Medical College and the restricted area at Jay-Vijay Chowk in the city. They asked how many people in this restricted area were positive as well as how they are being supplied with the daily needs.
While giving information about death analysis, Dr Baba Yelke said a total of 602 deaths have been reported in GMCH Yavatmal of which 436 were men and 166 women. The highest death toll was 196 in September 2020, followed by 163 in March 2021. Of the 602 deaths, 152 were referred, 420 were admitted directly to medical colleges and 30 were brought dead.