With the Jalandhar witnessing an uptick in Covid cases, the district administration has further stepped up its efforts to ensure sampling of the people with co-morbidities and those above the 30s by doubling the number of sampling teams from existing 39 to 80 to identify potential cases and initiate their treatment at the earliest.
Participating in a Video Conferencing chaired by Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare Husan Lal to review Covid-19 preparedness and minimise the loss of lives in this crisis, he said that earlier Jalandhar had 39 sampling teams, which had now been enhanced to 80.
He said that these teams had been mandated to ensure vigorous testing of 2.41 lakh people with the age group of above 30-years and co-morbid population in next 15-days, especially in urban areas.
He said early testing and timely treatment was being focused to bring down the case fatality rate (CFR). He said that this step of an increasing number of sampling teams would further help the health teams to identify the suspected and positive cases.
He said that sampling teams would be accompanied by OPD teams which would have medical officers, pharmacists, and staff nurses along with the stock of medicines, sanitizers and masks.
He said that the community volunteers would be involved in motivating the people to come forward for the testing as finding out the cases at an early stage means they would be treated early and this would help to save lives.
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The Deputy Commissioner said the district administration is fully prepared to address the surge and fighting the pandemic at the forefront.
He asked the people to support administration wholeheartedly and not to hesitate and report to the doctors immediately if they have any kind of flu-like symptoms so that the spread of the Covid-19 can be halted without further loss of any life.
He told the people should remain vigilant besides following the health safety protocols meticulously especially two-yard physical distancing, masking and hand hygiene.
The Deputy Commissioner also appealed to the people not to fall prey to these canards being spread through social media. He asked that people should not rely on these unfounded messages being circulated.