A three-member team of the central health department reached the steel city on Monday afternoon amid rising Covid-19 cases in East Singhbhum.

The team is set to inspect various health hubs to ascertain what kind of treatments are being offered to patients.

During their two-day visit, the team will also inspect the integrated disease surveillance programme (IDSP) office on Dhalbhum Road at Sakchi, and a few containment zones to assess Covid control measures adopted by the district administration.

‘Post assessment, the team will hold a meeting with district administrative and health officials on Tuesday to issue directives on how to curb infections and deaths.

Led by Dr Amarendra Mohapatra, head of the department, Preventive & Social Medicines, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, the team will also hold separate meetings with various health, and the IDSP, East Singhbhum to fix guidelines on how to treat serious Covid patients and check spread of the virus.

Apart from the doctors engaged under IDSP and health hubs, the central team will also interact with the nurses as well as the paramedics, along with frontline health workers.

East Singhbhum district civil surgeon, Rajendra Nath Jha told The Telegraph Online, "The team will be accompanied by district nodal officer, Dr Sahir Paul and district surveillance officer, Dr AK Lal and me during their inspection."

Jha said health hubs that the team is scheduled to visit are Tata Main Hospital at Bistupur, Tata Motors Hospital at Telco, MGM Medical College Hospital at Sakchi, Uma Superspeciality Hospital and Sent John's Hospital, both located on the NH-33 in Mango.

102 more people tested positive during the past 24 hours in the district, taking the Covid-19 tally to 8,140. Four more Covid deaths took place on Sunday, taking the death toll to 233 during the past 24 hours in the district.

"A large number of people are shying away from taking Covid tests in fear of getting admitted at a hospital. Such people are preferring to get treatment at home privately," said district surveillance officer AK Lal. He said this was the reason why the district health department has decided to carry out 40,000 random tests in Covid hotspots in the district from Tuesday.