Ongole: Dr Pola Bhaskara instructed the district officials to create awareness among people on coronavirus
Ongole: Prakasam District Collector Dr Pola Bhaskara instructed the district officials to create awareness among people on coronavirus and alert them about the spread of disease.
The Collector conducted an emergency meeting with the officials and said that the Union government has laid special focus on coronavirus that was engulfing the world as an epidemic.
He ordered the officials to understand the emergency conditions to create massive awareness among the public. He asked the officials to paste posters about the virus, measures to be taken to prevent it at schools, colleges, theatres, hotels and religious places in the district. He also directed them to appoint a team for every 30 families and conduct a detailed survey about the symptoms of disease and if they find any suspect cases to shift them along with the family members and close aides to isolation centres immediately.
If anyone was found with coronavirus symptoms, he said that sanitation programmes should be taken around 3 kilometres of the patient house on a war footing and close all schools, colleges, hotels, theatres and business establishments.
He announced that as coronavirus cannot be avoided with a vaccine, proactive steps should be taken to prevent it from spreading.
The collector said that 178 people reached the district from foreign countries in recent times and medical tests were conducted on 141 people after tracing them successfully.
He said 24 people were in home isolation and they were ready to arrange isolation wards in 253 hospitals if required. He announced that 90 hospitals in the district were ready to provide ventilator treatment to the patients in an emergency. He said that they have appointed 27 doctors, 54 nurses, 81 support staff and 27 sanitation workers to work in the isolation wards at four government and five private hospitals in the district and established a call centre with number 7729803162 to work round the clock.