In the state of Assam, as the Covid numbers spiking in rural areas, the state had relaunched its community surveillance program after success in controlling the numbers in the first wave.
As the growing covid cases in Assam spark again, Asha workers, Kanika Rabha and nurse Rashmi Kachari going door to door screening in Assam's Jimirigaon village, as in Track, Test, Treat method.
In a statement of Asha workers, Kanika Rabha she says about, the first case which was found out in the village she got terrified, even now she is still worried but with a spirited heart she addressed “we have to win over Covid and protect the village from it, that’s why we are doing this”. Moreover, they monitor people by checking their oxygen levels twice a day.
In Jimirigaon, Assam's 26,000 villages will be surveyed under the community surveillance program run by rural health workers. In which 24 thousand ASHA workers are working in providing door service. Each team in Asha has a doctor, a nurse, a lab technician, and a paramedic.
According to the data, till June 17, 1.88 crore people have been surveyed. Some of the villages nearly 24,000 of the 26,000 got covered in just 15 days and more than 2.93 lakh covid tests have been done at the village level, with 9,000 positive cases.
Besides, the testing has been done due to which it was found out from the covid symptoms, that people in the village from earlier were suffering from diarrhea, malaria, and even Japanese Encephalitis.
The Asha workers are doing their best work in providing all the necessary equipment required by the patients, as whenever they get information about the positive patient, they rush in providing the best told by Bhaskar Bharali, the Medical Officer at the Mataikhar Primary Health Centre (PHC).
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