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meet more than 80% of people’s health needs. It plays a significant role in gatekeeping and clinical responses in identifying and triaging potential COVID-19 cases, ensuring early diagnosis, helping vulnerable people cope with their anxiety, and reducing the hospital service demand. During the
initial pandemic Phase, the World Health Organization emphasized the role of Primary Care and provided interim guidance on the role of Primary Care in the covid 19 response. This guiding document identified Six principles that guided the roles of primary care in this pandemic. These six principles are maintaining delivery of essential health services; Identifying and managing potential cases; Avert the risk of transmission of infection to contacts and healthcare workers; Enhance existing surveillance such as for influenza-like illness (ILI) and Severe acute respiratory infection (SARI); Streng
12 May 2021
A large number of migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna Junction railway station, on 10 April. In comparison to the first exodus of migrant workers in March 2020, this time, the Bihar government seems even more ill prepared to test and monitor returning residents. Santosh Kumar / Hindustan Times / Getty Images
A large number of migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna Junction railway station, on 10 April. In comparison to the first exodus of migrant workers in March 2020, this time, the Bihar government seems even more ill prepared to test and monitor returning residents. Santosh Kumar / Hindustan Times / Getty Images
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A substandard health system devotes its resources to men
May 11
By: Neeta Lal
Bindiya Kumari, 26, a farmer from Dumaria village, located 175 km from capital city Patna in India’s poorest state of Bihar, has had two miscarriages since her marriage in 2018. Her plight sadly is neither rare nor exceptional. She and millions like her are the victims of a grossly substandard health care system that seriously neglects women and whose defects have been tragically magnified by the second wave of the coronavirus that has been ripping through the country.
The nearest hospital in Dumaria is 20 km away, Kumari says, so each time her delivery date arrived, the arduous journey to a medical facility in a rickety bus caused excessive bleeding, resulting in the death of her two unborn children.
Punjab, Haryana to step up screening as COVID spreads it tentacles in villages
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Last Updated: May 11, 2021, 04:03 PM IST
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According to a data of the Punjab Health Department, the current case fatality rate in Punjab s rural areas is 2.7 per cent as against less than one per cent in urban areas.
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Some opposition leaders claimed inadequate testing in rural areas and many of the deaths being reported recently could be because of COVID.
The spread of coronavirus infection in rural areas of Punjab and Haryana has become a cause for concern, with the authorities deciding to intensify screening and testing in villages.
COVID-19: Punjab, Haryana to intensify screening, testing as virus spreads in villages
In neighbouring Haryana, 8,000 multidisciplinary teams led by trainee doctors, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and Anganwadi workers, are being constituted for a door-to-door screening in villages
PTI | May 11, 2021 | Updated 17:17 IST
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had on Monday said the COVID-19 spread is not confined to urban areas only, but it is also hitting rural areas hard
The spread of coronavirus infection in rural areas of Punjab and Haryana has become a cause for concern, with the authorities deciding to intensify screening and testing in villages.
According to a data of the Punjab Health Department, the current case fatality rate in Punjab s rural areas is 2.7 per cent as against less than one per cent in urban areas.