Central teams to Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Punjab submit report on Covid measures
New Delhi/IBNS: The Central teams sent to Maharashtra, Punjab and Chhattisgarh earlier last week have found marked lack of compliance to Covid-appropriate behaviour, apart from issues like lack of RT-PCR testing facilities, shortage of healthcare workers and attacks on healthcare workers, said media reports.
The teams visited 50 districts across the three states, 30 of them in Maharashtra, 11 in Chhattisgarh and nine in Punjab, said an NDTV report.
The Centre has been deputing teams from time to time to various states and union territories to strengthen efforts for Covid-19 measures.
The Central teams have been submitting dely reports to the Centre bases on five aspects testing, contact tracing, hospital infrastructure, enforcement of Covid-appropriate behaviour and vaccination, it added.
After visiting Maharashtra, Chhatisgarh and Punjab, the Central teams pointed out the following aspects which need immediate focus to arrest the coronavirus cases.
Maharashtra
The Central team found sub-optimal containment operations in several districts.
Testing capacity is overwhelmed resulting in delay in reporting of test results.
Buldhana, Satara, Aurgangabad and Nanded had minimum surveillance and contact tracing, mainly due to shortage in manpower.
Lack of monitoring of patients in home quarantine.
In Bhandara, most covid cases were reported from outside the containment zones, thus requiring reorganisation of the zones.
Large number of deaths were reported in Satara within 72 hours of hospital admission due to late reporting to treatment centres, the Central team noted. Community resistance to the tests were also reported from the district.
Acute shortage of healthcare workers in Aurangabad, Nandurabar, Yawatmal, Satara, Palghar, Jalgoan and Jalna districts.
Punjab
Lack of Covid care centres and dedicated hospital
Shortage of healthcare workforce
Low rate of Covid testing
Slow pace of COVID-19 vaccination in Patiala and Ludhiana.
Chhattisgarh
Lack of perimeter control in containment zones in several districts
Shortage of RT-PCR testing facilities, drugs like Remdesivir and Heparin, oxygen and infrastructure including ambulance services.
Attack on healthcare workers and resistance to containment activities in a few districts. An incident of attack on healthcare workers in Dhaneli Village, Raipur was mentioned by the team.
Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgah are among five states that account for 70.82 per cent of India's active COVID-19 cases.
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