Central team visits Mehsana, Prantij observes self curfew

PALANPUR: A central health team on Sunday reviewed measures undertaken by Mehsana district authorities to prevent spread of coronavirus.
The team comprising of Dr P K Singh from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr S K Jain, additional director, epidemiology logistic and Dr Kaushik from NCDC held a review meeting with district health officials.
The team expressed satisfaction with various operations including house-to-house surveillance and made suggestions to utilize Asha workers and others for intensive surveillance and improving quality of testing.
It also recommended setting up post-Covid clinic which can attend to physical, mental and medical problems faced by Covid recovered patients.
Surveillance is being carried out in Mehsana district through 57 ‘dhanvantari’ chariots while testing is being conducted at RT-PCR centres and 145 rapid antigen teams.
The team visited Sai Krishna Covid hospital, Radhe Exotica centre while it was apprised of status of facilities and testing facilities in presence of district collector H K Patel, district development officer M Y Dakshini by senior health officials.
Meanwhile, Dinesh Patel, who heads agriculture produce market committee (APMC) at Unja said that there is no official order to close the APMC amidst concerns over rise in number of cases.
Traders in Sabarkantha’s Prantij town on the other hand kept shutters of their shops down as the town is observing voluntary curfew for two days starting from Sunday till Nov 30.