60 centres being built in Karnal rural areas

Tribune News Service

Karnal, May 13

With the increasing number of Covid-19 in rural areas, around 60 isolation centres are being established in villages by the district administration, where asymptomatic patients will be kept. Besides, door to door health screening of residents will also be done. The authorities claim that these measures will help the administration in breaking the chain of Covid-19 in the rural areas.

Nigdhu, old Nilokheri, Sikri, Samanabahu, Barana, Nilokheri town, Sandhir, Gharaunda CHC, Barsat, Chaura, Kalram, Bastara, Assandh PHC, Jaisinghpura, Rahra, Bilona, Ardana, Bahri, Chochra, Kabulpur Khera, Panghala, Alawala, Agondh, Gonder, Brass, Barota, Narukheri, Sirsi, Jundla, Rajepur, Badagaon, Madhuban, Uncha Samana, Gangar, Shamgarh and other villages are where the isolation centres are being set up.

“We have constituted teams for field survey at the village level, field level and headquarters’ level. Asha worker, anganwari workers, teachers, prominent people of the villages and social activists have been kept in these teams who conduct door to door health screening of the people to break the chain,” said Nishant Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner. The infected people will be kept at the isolation centre in the village. If the oxygen level dips, the patients will be shifted to Covid hospital at the CHC level and if the health condition deteriorates, the patient will be sent to the KCGMC. “We have started the process of establishing these isolation centres for which locations have been identified,” the DC maintained.