TIRUNELVELI
Following the door-to-door check to identify the COVID-19 patients at the early stage that has given excellent results in bringing down the number of fresh cases in the district, the district administration has deployed a Village Health Nurse for every 100 houses to visit the residents every day and check their health parameters in a bid to further fine-tune the early detection. According to Collector V. Vishnu, the recently introduced screening of residents at their doorsteps by the health workers for COVID-19 ensured the early detection of the persons who had contracted the viral infection and remain asymptomatic.
Since the visiting health workers lifted samples from the COVID-19 suspects, who were still unaware of their infection, they were sent to the triaging centre for further investigations and appropriate treatment, which drastically curtailed the number of fresh cases and the early intervention averted deaths.
Even as the number of active COVID-19 cases in Tiruchi district reports a dip, the district administration continues to test nearly 5,000 samples per day, keeping a check on the spread of the viral in
‘A patient died waiting for ambulance and then an oxygen bed’ The State government should immediately take stock of the number of ambulance vehicles across each district and ensure that no patient waited for more than 15 minutes for the emergency vehicles to reach the destination, said former minister and AIADMK MLA R.B. Udhayakumar on Tuesday.
Addressing reporters after distributing
kabasura kudineer to the people in Thirumangalam constituency, he alleged that waiting in vain for an ambulance for hours, a 31-year-old COVID-19 patient Bharanikumar of Mooduvarpatti had died due to COVID on Monday.
He said that the patient, who required Oxygen and admission in the hospital, was waiting for an ambulance. As the ambulance did not turn up, he managed to get into a goods vehicle passing the village and after travelling 30 kms, reached the Government Hospital. Again, the waiting time was long, the patient, who was admitted in the ward, was unable to get a bed with Oxygen and final
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