Teams rushed to states reporting high number of COVID-19 cases
The Centre on Friday deputed multi-disciplinary teams to Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Manipur in view of the high number of COVID-19 cases being reported by these states. Teams will be supporting the states in their efforts to carry out a targeted COVID-19 response and management, and effectively tackling the pandemic, a Union Health Ministry statement said.
Teams will monitor overall implementation of COVID-19 management
The two-member high-level team to these states comprises a clinician and a public health expert, the statement said. The teams will visit the states immediately and monitor the overall implementation of COVID-19 management, especially in testing, including surveillance and containment operations; COVID-19 Appropriate Behavior and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen, etc, and COVID-19 vaccination progress.
Teams will also suggest remedial actions
The teams will monitor the situation and also suggest remedial actions, the statement said. The Central teams will assess the situation and suggest remedial actions on public health activities to the respective state governments.
Names of doctors who will be leading their respective teams
The team to Manipur will be led by Dr. L Swasticharan, Additional DDG, and Director EMR. Team to Arunachal Pradesh will be led by Dr. Sanjay Sadhukhan, Professor AIIH&PH; for Tripura Dr. RN Sinha; for Kerala Dr. Ruchi Jain, Public Health Specialist Gr. II, RoHFW; for Odisha Dr. A Dan, Public Health Specialist AIIH&PH and for Chhattisgarh Dr. Dibakar Sahu, Assistant Professor, AIIMS Raipur.
Such teams are being deputed from time to time
As an ongoing effort to strengthen the efforts of various state and UT Governments for COVID-19 management, the Central Government has been deputing Central teams from time to time to visit various states and UTs.
India has witnessed over four lakh COVID-19 deaths till now
These teams interact with the state and UT authorities and get a first-hand understanding of challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks if any, the statement said. Meanwhile, India on Friday became the third country in the world to witness over four lakh deaths in total due to COVID-19 after the USA and Brazil.
