COVID : Preparedness

20/01/2022
 COVID Preparedness
• COVID control needs strategies
• Prepare public health response to prevent spread
• Prepare the hospitals to take the patients who needs admission
• Telangana implemented effective strategies in 1st &2nd waves
• Fever survey
• Home isolation kit
• COVID OP
• COVID triage
• Decentralized testing
• Rapid tests
• All these strategies are appreciated and incorporated by GOI
 COVID preparedness
• Public health preparedness
• Covid appropriate behavior
• Vaccination
• Restrictions
• Fever survey

• Hospital preparedness
• COVID OP
• COVID triage
• COVID hospital management
 Public health preparedness
• Prevent the spread
• Covid appropriate behavior : Mask/Distancing/ Hygiene
• Prevent the infection & severity of disease
• Vaccination
• Full doses
• Booster dose for HCW& Elderly with comorbidities
• Early identification & treatment of disease by fever survey
• House to house visits
• Identification of people with fever & cough/cold
• Home isolation kit
• Monitoring for 7 days
 Fever Survey
• Identification & management of people with symptoms
• Composition of team
• One health functionary(ASHA/ANM/Staff Nurse)
• One municipal/panchayat functionary
• Home isolation Isolation kits
• Field work plan
• Each team to cover 15-20 households per day
• Number of teams based on the number of House holds
• Cover all households and repeat
Management during the Home isolation
• All symptomatic persons are provided with isolation kit

• Provision of Home isolation kit with medicines & advisory

• Monitor the symptoms by phone or revisit

• If symptoms persists / worsens refer to nearest COVID OP

• All health facilities PHC/CHC/AH/DH/TH will run COVID OP

Vaccination progress