Ganjam To Undertake Mega Health Screening 2.0; SOP Issued

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration has decided to conduct second mass health screening in the district to check for any symptoms among the people. The screening will be carried out from door to door. The decision was taken as the district witnessed arrival of more than two lakh migrant workers from other states. While all the returned migrants have been subjected to compulsory institutional quarantine, the district administration does not want to take any chances of local transmission.

According to official sources, the Mega Health Screening will be conducted from June 8 to June 12 all over the district. The administration has also come up with a Standard Operation Procedure for the mass health screening program.

To chalk out the modalities of execution of the programme, Co-ordination Committee meeting shall be conducted via video conferencing in which BDOs, Tahasidars, medical officers and CDPOs should participate. Gram Panchayats should be divided into unit having 700 households and each unit should be assigned to a team consisting of local teacher, AWW, Health worker, ANM for health screening. The team should visit every household in the designated area and conduct thermal screening of all members of the family and fill up the given information sheet.

If any symptomatic person is found, the same has to be informed to the RRT immediately. On the same day, the concerned RRT need to visit the house to conduct complete health check up of the family. If the RRT team feels that the person or persons of the family are Covid infected then they must refer them to the nearest Covid care center with detailed referral note.

The supervising officers need to be appointed by the concerned BDO for each GP willconducta meeting daily evening and send the report to the BDO. The BDO in turn send the consolidated report to the District Covid cell.