AMN / WEB DESK
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has rushed two High Level multidisciplinary teams to Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh in view of surge in number of COVID-19 cases.
These teams will work with the governments to ascertain the reason for surge in cases, assist in undertaking gap analysis and recommend requisite COVID-19 control and containment measures.
The team to Chhattisgarh is headed by Dr. S K Singh, Director, National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and has experts from AIIMS, Raipur and All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health. The team for Chandigarh is headed by, Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Textiles Vijoy Kumar Singh with experts drawn from Dr RML Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. The deployed teams will visit the most affected districts to take a stock of on-ground implementation of public health interventions. They will also share the key findings, recommendations and remedial measures to be taken up with the Chief Secretary and Chief Administrator.
The Union Government has been leading the fight against the COVID pandemic with a ‘Whole of Government’ approach. As an ongoing effort to strengthen efforts of various State/UT governments for COVID management, the Central government has been deputing Central teams from time to time to visit various States/UTs. These teams interact with the State/UT authorities and get a first hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks, if any. The reports of Central Teams are shared with the states for further follow up action. The follow up and compliance on part of states is monitored by the Union Ministry of Health.
This deployment is latest in a series of teams that Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has deputed over the last couple of months in view of reports of resurgence in number of cases currently being reported by many States.