Mangaluru: Administration Dakshina Kannada has begun to collect details of drug stores from those who buy a Covid-19 test kit, fear that these buyers can escape quarantine if they are countless infections.
Information collection starts on Monday, under the direction of the district drug control department.
A senior department official said the buyer’s contact details would be given to the Ministry of Health.
The owners of several drug stores and pharmaceutical businesses say they have got round.
However, Dr.
Kishore Kumar M District Health Officer pointed to a problem that could appear after data collection.
Kumar said that through additional drug controllers, which is the authority, name, address, and telephone number of customers who have bought this kit are being collected.
If the buyer’s test is positive, it is expected to update the results on the application, which will reflect the ICMR website.
However, there is no existing mechanism to check whether the results are indeed being updated, said district health workers.
Herald Monteiro, medical owner of health care, told Tii he got a call from the drug control department, asking for customer details.
On Tuesday, he sold around 15 kits to social service organizations, he said.
Representatives from Ganesh Medicals said that demand for kits increased in the last 15 days.
“We sell an average of 20-25 kits per day, for Rs 250,” he said.
Manohar Shetty, Managing Director of the Sai Radha Group, said sales were not as high as Mumbai or Bengaluru.
“Around 8-10 home testing kits are sold per day.
These days, high levels of consciousness, and people make themselves treated coldly and fever immediately, because of the high recovery,” he said.
Mohammed Kunhi, medical owner of the unity, said the kit was sold for the first time in the second wave.
“We got a complaint that the results were inaccurate.
Every time a customer asks for a kit, I suggest they go to the nearest public health center and choose the RT-PCR test.
We have sold only two kits so far,” he said.
He added that he had also received a round from the drug control department who asked for detailed buyers.