Ludhiana: In the midst of an Omicron threat, the Ministry of Health faces the challenges of lack of staff because more than 50% of employees are in contracts.
This will affect Covid management.
The health department official said it was not only testing, but the other Pandemic Management Area was affected due to lack of staff, daily testing had been hit.
Against the daily target of 8,000 to 10,000, less than 6,000 tests were carried out in the district.
Officials said there was time when vaccination was carried out in more than 250 sites, but now the number shrank to 116.
The State Health Office report on December 3 said the contacts value of contact from Ludhiana Regency was 7.3 compared to the average state of 17.1 for seven last day.
According to the report on November 13, the contact case ratio of Ludhiana Regency is 14 and the country is 16.7.
Health Officers said the threat of Omicron had come at the time of the department had more than 50% of employees broke down and because contractual staff were involved in Covid management, including testing, contact contacts and vaccinations, it has become a big challenge for us.
The Civil Surgeon Dr.
Singh also confirmed that they had faced problems because more than 50% of staff (the contract) were on strike.
He said they were trying to overcome the help of available resources.
An officer said not much is not much known about Omicron especially his characteristics, they ask people to follow the appropriate behavior of Covid.
Health department officials said that because this was the election year, contractual employees wanted to get their demands, especially regularization, fulfilled and strikes have not had an impact on civil hospital work because the authorities have made a temporary arrangement.
Residents want a department to take all the necessary steps to check the spread of the virus.
“We have heard that the Omicron case has been reported in India, so we are worried.
Even though we follow Covid norms, including wearing masks, maintaining social distance, among other things, we ask the health department to increase supervision and get more people vaccinated.
And.
People also have to work with the department, “said Narinder Singh, a city resident.