The health
department and the administration on Monday started door-to-door collection of
samples for Covid-19 testing in the Amritsar district with a view to putting in
place more effective prevention measures.
To start with, a mobile van of the
municipal corporation (MC) started collecting samples in the city’s two
containment and as many micro- containment zones. Thereafter, more such vans
may be pressed into service in other areas, health officials said.
“The residents of containment zones were
reluctant to visit the nearby sample collection centres thinking that they
might get infected if they came in contact with others. Due to this, the health
department was unable to achieve the target of random sample collection in the
city’s two containment zones. Two teams of doctors will be sent in the van at
one time,” said assistant civil surgeon Dr Amarjit Singh.
Amritsar mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu
Amritsar
mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu said, “This is the first initiative in Punjab to
launch a door-to-door sample collection facility. The van has been designed
specially to avoid direct contact of health officials with the public. The van
has adequate space for storing the samples. If the plan remains successful, the
health department will use more such vans.”
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