Vijayawada: Foreign returnees under scanner on Covid-19

Vijayawada: District Collector Mohammad Imtiaz instructed the staff of the ward and village secretariats, ASHA workers and ANMs to conduct a door-to-door survey to look for people who returned from foreign countries since there are at least 500 people who returned from abroad.

Those who are found with the symptoms of Covid-19 should be listed as A Group and without symptoms to be listed as B group. ANMs, ASHA workers and medical personnel should track both the groups for 14 days. Later also, their whereabouts and health condition should be tracked.

If anybody was found with the Covid-19 symptoms, the medical officers should be immediately informed, he added. They should be kept in a room separately and only one person should help him for any needs. They should not be allowed to move out and if they did not cooperate they would be put under house arrest.

The District Collector suggested a one-day training camp for the private doctors in the city on Covid-19.

Municipal Commissioner Prasanna Venkatesh informed the District Collector that a 30-bed hospital was available at Rajiv Nagar in the city to set up an isolation centre. The collector instructed the medical officers to provide necessary infrastructure at the hospital.

Joint Collector Dr Madhavi Latha said that the list of foreign returned provided by the Centre should be distributed to all the primary health centres. If the details were provided to the medical officers they would track them, she added.

DMHO Dr Ramachandra Murthy, DRO A Prasad, Dy DMHO Dr Saranya Dr Subrahmanyam and others were present.