A two-member Central team arrived here on Monday to review management of the Covid-19 situation in the State.
The team led by Dr A Dan, Public Health Specialist AIIH & PH, landed at the airport here by an Air India flight from Kolkata via Jharsuguda. The two officials then had a discussion on the prevailing Covid situation with Director of Public Health Niranjan Mishra, who put forth a comprehensive report before them. After preliminary discussions, the Central team visited private and Government hospitals in Bhubaneswar.
It would visit the districts reporting maximum numbers of positive cases on Tuesday.“We will visit highly-infected districts tomorrow to review the situation from various angles.
A third wave of the pandemic may come in August- September,” said team member Dr Shibani Dutta, Professor in the Department of Public Health Administration at All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata.
Recently, the Centre had informed that multidisciplinary teams would be deputed to Odisha, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Chhattisgarh and Manipur in view of increased number of cases being reported in these States.
The team in Odisha would monitor the overall Covid-19 management, including testing, surveillance and containment operations, Covid-appropriate behaviour and its enforcement, availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen, etc., and vaccination progress.
The team would also suggest remedial measures to the State Government. A copy of the report would also be provided to the Union Health Ministry.