Take urgent steps to curb Covid spread: Nodal officer

Kanpur: UPSIDA managing director Mayur Maheshwari, nodal officer of Kanpur, expressed grave concern over the spread of coronavirus and emphasized on testing, tracing and treatment of the infected persons.

In a review meeting on Saturday evening, Maheshwari directed the officers to follow test, trace and treatment strategy.

As soon as anyone is found positive, he must be informed and told what precautions need to be taken. This message must be passed through the control room. The operators in control room must ensure they communicate precautions for prevention to at least 1,000 persons per day.

A separate team should be deployed by the control room to contact pensioners daily. The team should contact 400 persons per day, the nodal officer said.

The team members should ask pensioners if they have any physical problems and prepare a list to monitor them.

A separate list should also be prepared of blood pressure, sugar and other serious patients.

Maheshwari also ordered daily monitoring of patients in home isolation and inform the control room on 18001805159 immediately if they feel any problem.

He asked the doctors to ensure every patient gets treatment. They should be advised through telemedicine.

The nodal officer asked the RRT team, which is contacting patients in home isolation, to visit their homes and record their condition by using pulse oximeter and thermal scanning.

Maheshwari also inspected the control room later. District magistrate Dr Brahma Deo Ram Tiwari made a call to a patient from the control room and asked if he was facing any physical problem? The corona patient said he was fit and there was no problem.

Maheshwari then inspected the civil lines containment zone. He directed the municipal commissioner to ensure proper sanitization of all containment zones.

District magistrate Dr Brahmadeo Ram Tiwari, municipal commissioner Akshay Tripathi, ADM civil supply Basant Lal Agarwal, ADM land acquisition Pramod Kumar, city magistrate Himanshu Gupta, and chief medical officer Anil Mishra were also present during the inspection.