As the Covid cases are on a rise in Odisha, the state government has asked all state-run medical colleges and chief district medical officers to increase surveillance, testing and preparedness for a potential surge of the virus. The state has reported 14 new Covid 19 cases this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Niranjan Mishra, Public Health Director in a letter to all medical colleges and Chief District Medical Office (CDMO) said that the recent rise in COVID-19 cases across India necessitates immediate and proactive measures to combat any surge in COVID-19 cases in the state. The Public Health Director further requested the concerned authorities to implement the action points given therein and to remain alert to meet any exigency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The state government further added that ILI (influenza-like illness), and SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) surveillance should be increased and testing to be made available in every health institution. It noted that those found positive, should follow home isolation protocol strictly and necessary treatment support should be provided besides ensuring dedicated beds and oxygen-supported beds for any admission and management according to the COVID management protocol and there should not be any unnecessary referrals. The government also ordered the authorities to follow the COVID management strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The letter further requested the authorities to coordinate and collaborate with district administration for increasing IEC (Information Education Communication) and BCC (Behaviour Change Communication) for community awareness emphasising that symptomatic, elderly and vulnerable populations should adhere to the COVID-19 appropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Public Health Department also asked the authorities to ensure adequate availability of test kits, reagents drugs, and consumables to deal with the COVID situation in coordination with Odisha State Medical Corporation Limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, the authorities were told that there should be timely data entry and reporting as per the said protocol, training and capacity building of healthcare providers and laboratory personnel and keeping a contingency plan ready to deal with any situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The state government further added that ILI (influenza-like illness), and SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) surveillance should be increased and testing to be made available in every health institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":497522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[96509,1245,92768],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/30152518\/download-2023-12-30T151940.151.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497520"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=497520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}