GHMC conducts door-to-door survey; finds over 1,400 with COVID symptoms
By News Desk| Published: 6th May 2021 2:26 pm IST GHMC officials taking up door-to-door survey. (Twitter)
Hyderabad: In a bid to tackle the spread of the second wave of COVID-19 infections in the city, officials of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) this week took up a door-to-door survey to ascertain the number of people with symptoms of the viral disease.
As a part of the survey, the officials visited at least 40,000 households and found 1,487 people suffering from fever and COVID-19 related symptoms.
The survey was ordered by the state government which was carried out by 707 teams in total among 30 circles within the corporation limits and completed in two days.
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Forums interact with Health Dept, ward councillors to ensure second dose
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Forums interact with Health Dept, ward councillors to ensure second dose
The intervention of various residents’ associations in the city to speed up the vaccination of senior citizens has come to fruition with the Health Department’s latest plan to reach out to the needy with the support of ward councillors, Junior Public Health Nurses (JPHN) and Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA).
Now, efforts are on to collect the ward-level details of all elderly citizens, whose final dose is due as a result of the vaccine shortage and other unexpected technical issues. The comprehensive ward-level priority list will be prepared carrying the names of persons who have completed 42 days after their first dose. Arrangements are also in place to give equal consideration for all wards.
When India launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive in the middle of January, the chances of success looked high: It could produce more shots than any country in the world and had decades of experience inoculating pregnant women and babies in rural areas.
“Our preparation has been such that vaccine is fast reaching every corner of the country,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Jan. 22. “On the world’s biggest need today, we are completely self-reliant. Not just that, India is also helping out many countries with vaccines.”
Just more than three months later, that initial promise has evaporated and the government’s
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Vaccinating all adults, some 90 crore Indians, is fraught with multiple challenges. These include a massive shortage of jabs, friction between the Centre and some states, confusion arising out of differential pricing and, above all, the severity of the current wave, which has jammed the nation’s healthcare infrastructure and even forced many youngsters to worry whether vaccination centres could emerge as super spreading spots.
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