ibune News Service

Ludhiana, May 18

To detect and treat Covid patients at the earliest, especially in the rural hinterland witnessing a surge in cases, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma and Commissioner of Police Rakesh Aggarwal on Tuesday called up panchayats to motivate people for reporting to doctors without fail in case of flu-like symptoms and get tested for Covid.

Addressing panchayat members and others in Malakpur village, the Deputy Commissioner and the Commissioner of Police said the foremost priority was to protect human lives from the pandemic and said panchayat heads and members could do wonders by ensuring sensitisation activities at the grass-roots level and taking the message of contacting doctor immediately on first symptom so that timely treatment could be initiated which would further help save precious lives.

They told them to take the services of local religious and social leaders to aware the public about Covid symptoms, including cold, cough, fever, sore throat and body ache.

They told people not to take the pandemic lightly and extend fulsome support to the Health Department and the administration by reporting the symptoms to doctors without fail to fight the virus.