The Ganjam administration on Monday began a mega health screening programme in the district in view of the increasing Covid-19 cases in the district.
More than 3.5 lakh families would be covered under the campaign through door-to-door health screening in each household.
The campaign would continue till June 12. As per official sources, gram panchayats would be divided into units having 700 households and each unit would be assigned to a team consisting of a local teacher, AWW, health worker and ANM for health screening.
The team would visit each household of the specified area and conduct the thermal screening of each individual o rmember of that household.
If any symptomatic person is found during health screening, the informationiwould be immediately transmitted to the concerned RRT.
On the same day, the concerned RRT would visit the house of symptomatic person and undertake a detailed medical check-up of all the members of the family.
If the RRT feels that the person might have virus symptoms, then RRT would refer the person to the nearest Covid Care Centre with a detailed referral note, sources said.
Once the symptomatic suspect case is referred to centre, the Nodal Medical Officer will conduct a thorough check-up of the person and report the findings to the office of the CDMO and PHO, sources added.