COVID-19 DIARY
Recently,
The World Health Organisation (WHO) praise
d the efforts taken to contain the
coronavirus in Mumbai’s Dharavi.
It showed that if administration, media, civil society bodies, people
etc. collaborate together
–
- even difficult tasks can be handled effectively.
- Strong focus on community engagement and the basics of testing, tracing, isolating and treating all those that are sick
- Important Role played by frontline workers
- brought in private practitioners to create an environment of trust for people to come out and report symptoms.
- proactive screening with the assistance of private doctors and community support helped it in the fight against the disease.
- Combination of efforts taken by the civic authorities and the local participation
- Approach to tackle the virus was focused on four Ts – tracing, tracking, testing and treating
- door-to-door screening in high risk zones and all suspects were identified
- Police are using drones to make sure people obey the rules