Rourkela/Vedavyas: Even as Covid-19 cases are surging in Sundargarh, Rapid Response Teams (RRT), formed to regularly check health of people in home isolations, has started its work.
Members of the RRTs are making door-to-door visits and checking body temperatures, recording oxygen level with pulse oxymeter and trying to know other symptoms of people in home isolation.
They also provide necessary medicines and in some cases, patients are sent to Covid hospitals. The RRT members are recording data about the suspicious cases and reporting them to the district administration.
Now, the district administration has laid stress on tracing, tracking and treatments of Covid cases in both urban and rural areas. Each RRT comprises a doctor, a pharmacist, an ANM worker, a laboratory technician and an administrative official.
Gaon Kalyan Samitis in rural areas and Rogi Kalyan Samitis in urban areas are extending necessary support to the RRTs working in 17 blocks, Rourkela Municipal Corporation, Biramitrapur, Rajgangpur and Sundargarh municipalities.
These teams have intensified their checking in some areas where the rate of Covid infections are rising. Scribe loses battle Senior journalist Adwaita Prasad Biswal died of Covid-19 while he was under treatment at a hospital here Friday.
The 78-year-old Biswal breathed his last at JP Hospital in Rourkela. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago after his condition deteriorated due to Covid infection.
Various journalists’ associations, political leaders, litterateurs and labour unions condoled his death.
PNN