Assam Receives Special Mention in WHO's Appreciation of Effective Covid-19 Management

GUWAHATI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) applauding the COVID-19 frontline worker's in Assam stated- "Frontline workers with muddy feet and hearts of gold" in its feature story.

The feature story published in the first week of April paid tributes to the state's frontline workers saying, "In a state where 39.6 % of the area is prone to floods, according to Rashtriya Barh Ayog in the Department of Water Resources, Government of Assam, large tracts of land are unreachable for many months during the year, which makes providing health care services a huge challenge."

Further, the feature reads, When Covid-19receives cases began rising after the easing of the nationwide lockdown on 17 May 2020, Assam rapidly scaled up testing, tracing, and treatment by launching the Assam Community Surveillance Plan (ACSP) to conduct active community surveillance to identify fever and SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Infections) and ILI (Influenza-like Illness). Under this "COVID-19 plus" campaign, health workers visited door-to-door to screen people at high risk for teams to test the following day. Read more

WHO field teams supported community and targeted surveillance programmes by guiding COVID-19 response activities in flooded areas and remote tea gardens, and assisting in data management and field reviews of infection prevention and control in COVID care hospitals. Other areas of support included activating a strong primary health care network for surveillance, strict quarantine, and effective case management, which contributed to improved recovery rates, the article added. Read more

Meanwhile, the WHO field teams have also been guiding the state government in the resumption and continuation of essential services in Immunization, vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, TB elimination, and comprehensive primary care with the state.

Currently, Assam registered 573 more people tested positive for COVID-19 taking the tally in the state to 2,22,940, with 4 more fatalities pushing the death toll to 1,127, stated the National Health Mission (NHM) said in a bulletin. Read more

Kamrup Metropolitan reported the highest number of new cases at 245, followed by Kamrup (47), Nagaon (33), and Sonitpur (30).

The four deaths were reported from Kamrup Metro, Nagaon, Karimganj, and Lakhimpur.

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