Staff Correspondent
DIBRUGARH: Deputy Commissioner Pallav Gopal Jha directed health officials to conduct a minimum of 300 Rapid Antigen Tests in a day per health block in Dibrugarh district to contain the spread of COVID-19.
DC Jha, while reviewing the COVID situation of Dibrugarh district at a meeting held at the conference hall of DC's office here on Monday, also directed health officials to do
Rapid Antigen Test of each and every person coming to PHCs, CHCs, and BPHCs with fever, apart from SARI & amp; ILI cases to ensure early detection of COVID-19 positive cases. He said if the health department could do 300 tests per health block in a day, there would be control over the situation. It would help maximum isolation of COVID-19 patients and also to control mortality rate.
In the meeting, DC Jha also reviewed the case management system of all positive cases and directed health officials to create a mechanism to ensure proper monitoring and follow up of home isolation cases. Later, DC Jha also visited the COVID Care Centre at Khanikar and interacted with the COVID -19 positive patients and inspected quality of health services, food and other facilities provided at the centre.
In the meeting, steps taken in the district to prevent AES/Japanese encephalitis (JE) cases were also reviewed. The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner (Health) Dipu Kumar Deka and other senior officials.