KHAMMAM: Top officials of the medical and health department including principal secretary S M Rizvi and director G Srinivasa Rao visited Madhira and
Sattupalli and reviewed the Covid-19 conditions in the district.
They found that the Covid-19 is continuing to spread on the Andhra Pradesh
border especially in Assembly segments of Sattupalli, Madhira, Khammam and
Nagarjunasagar due to the interstate transport of people.
Rizvi said the Covid-19 positive rate was reduced after execution of
lockdown and it should be curtailed to below five percent by June 9. “For
that, we have to concentrate more on border mandals. Field workers should
find the reasons for increasing cases and identify asymptomatic persons in
their houses itself,” he said, adding that coordination between the
departments was must to achieve the target.
“The virus is still prevalent in villages and all departments should work to
curtail the cases there. It is a fact that thousands of people are coming
from Andhra Pradesh for various purposes and cases should be reduced keeping all factors in view. The role of the staff working in primary health centres
is very important in fulfilling the task and a house-to-house fever survey
should be conducted strictly,” he said.
“Knock the doors of asymptomatic persons immediately after getting
information and give them medicine kits first and conduct antigen tests
later. If the patients do not have facility for home isolation, they should
be shifted to the government isolation centres. In case the patient is not
shifted, the other members of the family may contract the virus,” he said.
The principal secretary asked the officials to keep an eye on paddy lifting
centres, farms and other workplaces. “Covid-19 tests should be conducted by
sending mobile vans there,” he said.
Srinivasa Rao said the medical and health department had been working day
and night to check Covid-19 for the last 15 months and the second wave was
showing its impact more on rural areas. He enquired the reasons for high
positive rate where 786 active cases were active in Karepalli mandal. The
officials should evolve an action plan to check the cases there, he opined.
District collector R V Karnan explained the measures being taken to contain
the virus in the district.
