The State Governmen on Monday asked district Collectors and Chief District Medial Officers (CDMOs) to analyse the changing covid situation in their districts and redesign strategy to manage the evolving crisis.
Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy directed them to make advance arrangements regarding Covid management keeping in view the prospective scenario till end of August.
Health and Family Welfare ACS Pradeepta Mohapatra informed that the State has sufficient stock of testing kits and medicines and aournd 1,16,000 antigen test kits have already given to the districts.
The Collectors were asked to enhance per-day sample collection to 500 at least. The hotspot districts were asked to scale up the sample collection up to 1,000 per day. They were asked to utilise the antigen test kits and upload the test results in ICMR portal on daily basis.
The doctors were advised to take up plasma therapy as per the standard protocol. The Collectors were advised to encourage and support plasma collection in all possible ways. It was decided that since plasma collection requires two days activity (one day for different tests and other day for collection), the donors would be provided necessary food and accommodation facilities at head quarters of the plasma banks.
It was further decided to put in place an online portal to facilitate the donors for self registration.