Centre rushes 50 high-level teams to Maha, Chhattisgarh and Punjab for COVID-19 control

New Delhi, April 6: The Central government has constituted 50 high-level multi-disciplinary public health teams and deployed them to 50 districts across Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Punjab in view of the recent very large numbers of daily new COVID-19 cases and daily mortality being consistently reported by these states.

 

"The teams are being rushed to 30 districts of Maharashtra, 11 districts of Chhattisgarh, and 9 districts of Punjab to assist the State Health Department and local authorities in COVID-19 surveillance, control, and containment measures," the Health Ministry said.

 

The two-member high-level team consists of a clinician/epidemiologist and a public health expert. "The teams will visit the States immediately and monitor the overall implementation of COVID-9 management, especially in testing, including surveillance and containment operations; COVID-19 Appropriate Behavior and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen etc., and COVID-19 Vaccination progress," it added.

 

As an ongoing effort to strengthen the efforts of various state/UT Governments for COVID-19 management, the Centre 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.