The Madurai Corporation has set up monitoring teams across all the 100 wards, which would primarily keep a close tab on people in isolation at homes and ensure that their basic requirements were fulfilled without any of them stepping out of their houses.
The teams will comprise nine members from anganwadi, health, sanitary and volunteers.
By having the list of patients ward-wise, it would become easy to have an eye on the people. After getting in touch with them, the team members would help them dispose of garbage from their premises. In case, they require food or any medicine, they would be delivered through contactless mode by the stakeholders, said Commissioner K. P. Karthikeyan here on Sunday.
He said that, in a simultaneous drive, the civic authorities were engaged in offering counselling to people, who were still unvaccinated. After disseminating information about the consequences and merits of inoculation, the eligible people were given the doses.
Persons in the age group of 15 to 18 years too were getting the vaccine shots.
Collector S Aneesh Shekhar inspected the Covid Care Centres being readied at Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College and at the American College campus. He appealed to the people to get vaccinated at the designated vaccination points without delay.
Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) Dean Rathnavel, who inspected the Covid Clinic which has been set up temporarily at the Ilango Corporation School near the GRH campus, said that people with ailments such as fever, cold and cough can make use of the school campus from January 10. The clinic would function from 8 a.m. onwards.
The GRH was fully geared to take COVID-19 patients who require oxygen, the Dean added.