New Delhi: The Centre deputed Friday multi-disciplinary teams to Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur. This was done in view of the high number of Covid-19 cases being reported by these states. The multi-disciplinary teams will be supporting the states like Odisha in their efforts to carry out a targetted Covid response and management. The teams will effectively help in tackling the pandemic, a Union Health Ministry statement said. The two-member high level team to these states comprises a clinician and a public health expert, the statement said.
The teams will visit the states immediately and monitor the overall implementation of Covid-19 management. They will supervise the segments like testing, surveillance and containment operations; Covid Appropriate Behaviour and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen etc, and Covid-19 vaccination progress.
The teams will monitor the situation and also suggest remedial actions, the Health Ministry statement said. They will also put forward suggestions on public health activities to the respective state governments.
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The team to Manipur will be led by Dr L Swasticharan, Additional DDG and Director EMR; team to Arunachal Pradesh will be led by Dr Sanjay Sadhukhan, Professor AIIH&PH; for Tripura Dr RN Sinha will head the team; for Kerala Dr Ruchi Jain, Public Health Specialist Gr. II, RoHFW; for Odisha Dr A Dan, Public Health Specialist AIIH&PH and for Chhattisgarh Dr Dibakar Sahu, Assistant Professor, AIIMS Raipur.
As an ongoing effort to strengthen efforts of various state and UT governments for Covid management, the Central Government has been deputing Central teams from time to time to visit various states and UTs.
These teams interact with the state and UT authorities and get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks, if any, the statement said.
