27-05-2025
KMC forms health teams in wards for door-to-door survey, focus on seniors
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Kolkata: Taking note of the gradual rise in Covid cases, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has formed a team of health workers in wards who will go from door to door in neighbourhoods to identify elderly citizens with comorbidities suffering from Covid-like symptoms.
KMC health officials have also been asked to collect data from the state and private hospitals about any patient testing positive for Covid. At the same time, the civic brass has activated the Covid infrastructure at the health clinics as part of preparation to combat any outbreak in future.
Deputy mayor and KMC health department MMiC Atin Ghosh on Tuesday held an urgent meeting with the senior health officials from all 16 boroughs and asked them to get ready for any emergency.
"We interacted with the borough executive health officers and asked them to train the medical officers who joined post-Covid period so that any patients turning up at our health clinics are examined well and, if need be, send patients with Covid-like symptoms to the School of Tropical Medicine to undergo tests," said Ghosh.
Meanwhile, the KMC health department decided to launch a campaign to educate citizens about emerging dangers. "We will ask citizens to use sanitiser, masks, and keep social distancing from a patient who might test positive for Covid," said Ghosh.
However, Ghosh made it clear that there is no Covid threat now and the KMC health department didn't want to spread panic. "All we need to do is ask the citizens to remain alert," the deputy mayor said.
