Piki to launch a program where the doctor will go from door to door to test Covid-19, providing a medical kit and recording vaccination data on the newly built application
For the initial identification of Covid cases, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is ready to launch a program where the doctor will visit every household.
Revenue Minister R Ashoka said that this ambitious program will be launched from August 16.
As a pilot project, two wards will be selected in each assembly segment.
Team doctors, paramedics and Asha workers will visit every home.
An application will record patient data that will be screened for symptomatic and co-morbidity cases.
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The team will also collect details whether residents have taken vaccines and ensure reason if they fail to do it.
In terms of symptomatic patients, on-spot testing will be carried out, and a medical kit will also be provided.
Gradually, the door-to-door survey will be extended to all 29 lakh houses in Bengaluru
Although the Covid case seems to be controlled in Bengaluru, the highest number of cases reported from areas under the assembly segment of Yelahanka, Mahadevapura and Bommanahalli.
At the Covid review meeting with BBMP officials on Monday, Ashoka said that most of the Covid cases were reported from the apartment.
“We will ask Marshal and health workers to store tabs in the apartment.
I ask everyone to follow the corresponding behavior of Covid so we can curb the increase in Covid cases.
We will come with a detailed guide including for hotels.
We will review the situation after August 15 and Take a more stringent decision if needed, “Ashoka said.
On Monday, 348 new Covid cases were reported in Bengaluru with one death.
This is the lowest record of Covid deaths reported during the second wave so far.
Ashoka said: “At present, 181 Covid patients have been treated in the government and 462 to a private hospital for under the boundary of the bundle percent to 0.64 percent.
“Children’s hospitals are ready for the inauguration of the Padmanabhanagar constituency.
Facilities in such a way that there will be a play area for positive covid children.
There will be facilities for one of the parents to live with children during treatment too.
Such a child hospital will be established in each assembly segment.
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102 positive test students in Hassan
After a student from Kerala was tested positively, district health officials had conducted mass testing for students studying at 14 nursing colleges.
Of the 2,048 students who were screened, 102 students in Hassan had been tested positively and placed under quarantine.
