More than 91,439 patients having influenza-like illness have so far been detected in over 5000 villages of Haryana during the ongoing state villagers general health checkup scheme.
The door-to-door survey in villages to identify COVID-19 patients began on May 15 in the state. Around 8000 multidisciplinary teams were constituted for conducting door to door health check-ups in rural areas.
In just a short span of 12 days, teams constituted for the survey have conducted the health check-up of around 1.25 crore people residing in 25,49,464 houses in rural areas across the state, said an official spokesman.
He said that during door-to-door check-up as many as 91,439 patients having flu-like symptoms were identified and got timely treatment.
As per the data available, samples of 1,07,852 (90,474 rapid antigen tests and 17,378 RT-PCR tests) have so far been taken in rural areas under the Haryana village general health check-up scheme(HVGHCS), in which 3781 patients were found positive.
The strategy of test-track-treatment certainly proved to be very effective as the positivity rate has come down to 3.47 per cent, the spokesman said.
While conducting these health check-ups, the teams are closely monitoring every patient and those having mild or moderate symptoms are being asked to stay in home isolation, while those who are not having home isolation facility are made to stay in isolation centres that are being set up in the village itself.
Over 160 are admitted in village isolation centres.
The work of door to door health check-up is likely to finish in the next two days, the spokesman said.
He said that when in the month of May, India saw a sudden spurt in COVID-19 cases, Haryana Government adopted proactive strategies coupled with aggressive surveillance, stringent containment, focused clinical management along with proactive Information Education and Communication (IEC) activities to combat the virus spread in both urban and rural areas.
While especially emphasizing on the villages of Haryana-NCR districts from where people are traveling daily to Delhi and other big cities for their work, the Haryana Government started monitoring all such people ensuring that the virus spread is contained and further hot-spot-like situations do not arise in such villages, he said.
1746 village isolation centres have been opened in villages so that no needy patient has to travel long distances to get the required treatment, the spokesman further said.
According to the official data, an arrangement of about 21,399 beds for COVID patients has been made in these Centres along with free distribution of specially designed COVID-19 kits carrying 15 different medical items including Oximeters, thermometers to the patients living in home isolation. So far, as many as 24,550 patients have received this kit provided by the Health Department, he added.