Kashmir: DHSK conducts over 30,000 Covid tests in a day: Official

Spokesperson of Directorate of Health Services Kashmir, Dr Mir Mushtaq while quoting him said that Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical  Education Department Atal Dulloo has been constantly directing the department to do more and more  tests. Accordingly, the DHSK has directed the field staff to enhance the testing capacity.

The spokesperson said despite having a low positive rate, the aggressive testing has been extended in all  the hospitals.

On the directions of the Director of Health Services Kashmir, special sampling counters have been created across Kashmir including the tertiary care hospitals, the spokesman said.

“As part of the continuous testing measures, on Wednesday alone, we have conducted more than  30,000 tests which is the record number so far,” he added..

On the directions of DHSK, all the Chief Medical Officers have constituted three special teams in each block who monitored the vaccination and the sampling process.

Similarly, the spokesman said such teams have also been created at the divisional level which monitored the sampling process across Kashmir division.The spokesman while quoting DHSK's Dr Mushtaq said it is only  testing, testing and more testing which will help in identifying the cases and it is the only way to contain the disease and stop its spread.

“Although, the Covid cases have come down, we need not to relax. We should continue to do aggressive  testing because it is only by means of testing we can detect the cases which are mandatory for containing  the virus,” he quoted the Director as saying.

While congratulating field staff for their exemplary work the director said testing is important for disease containment and it will continue until the Covid-19 pandemic is over.

The Director added  that a similar strategy will be applied for increasing  the Covid-19 vaccination across the Kashmir division.