Door-to-door verification and community surveillance in Chennai
Posted on: 30/Mar/2020 9:48:46 AM
In the 15 neighborhoods in Chennai where few residents tested positive for Covid-19, GCC has begun door-to-door verification and community surveillance.
All the residents belonging to 15 neighborhoods must stay in their homes. This was as per Mr. G. Prakash, Chennai Corporation commissioner. It is worthy to note that he released the list of 15 areas and advised the residents to be at their homes and come out only in case of basic needs.
Information is masks must be worn by those in indoors who have travel history or history of exposure to any Covid-19 positive patients in the notified places. He warned those in home quarantines against stepping out of their homes. He also wanted them to make their own local arrangements to get products delivered in a basket outside.
From Sunday morning, containment plan was started in Chennai. It must be noted that those houses where the residents tested positive would be the epicentre. The focus area would be some 2500 houses near the epicentre and all the houses would be inspected every day. It is revealed that the workers would repeat the inspection everyday to keep an eye on the fever or other symptoms.
Mr. G. Prakash highlighted that those areas outside the focus areas would be verified by the health workers once in 2 days for a period of 28 days. As many as 15 teams have been formed for door-to-door verification. The containment plane would utilize the services of 2500 DBC, 1500 angawadi workers, 750 health nurses and 1500 school teachers etc.
