Tirupati Urban Development Authority plans to supply special kits to Panchayat staff

Tirupati: With the aim to prevent spread of coronavirus, Tirupati Urban Development Authority (TUDA) has decided to supply personal protection kits to all the panchayat staff and mandal level staff, said TUDA Chairman Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy on Saturday.

He held a teleconference with all the MPDOs of Chandaragiri constituency, and said that masks, sanitisers and other protection suits will be supplied by TUDA in next two to three days.

He said if Panchayat staff receives any information about persons with suspected coronavirus, they should shift such persons to hospitals with proper precautions. For that TUDA is going to supply masks, hand gloves, sanitisers and pp suits to each mandal level medical teams. He instructed the MPDOs to clear all the garbage from village roads and asked to maintain the sanitation properly for prevention of corona virus.

Chevireddy said that total 55 foreign returnees were identified in Tirupati rural, Chandragiri, Yerravaripalem, Chinnagottigallu and RC Puram mandals, which come under Chandragiri constituency.

TUDA Vice-Chariman Harikrishan released posters on awareness on corona disease. TUDA secretary Lakshmi and noted physician Dr Krishna Prasanthi and medical officers were present.