The Union health ministry will send a three-member expert team to three districts of Jharkhand which have witnessed sudden spike in Covid-19 cases.
“The team will assist state health departments for review of public health measures for Covid-19. They will be deputed for a period of 10 days at Ranchi, Dhanbad and Jamshedpur (in East Singhbhum district) as these three districts have witnessed maximum number of Covid-positive cases and also large number of fatalities,” said Jharkhand principal secretary health Nitin Madan Kulkarni.
Jharkhand had on August 31, a growth rate of 4.25 per cent almost double of the national average at 2.21 per cent while the doubling rate stood at 16.64 days (national average 31.67 days).
According to sources in the Union health ministry’s directorate general of health services (DGHS) emergency medical relief (EMR) division, the team would be led by Dr Tapas Ray, a senior professor in Preventive and Social Medicine (PSM) at Lady Hardinge Medical College (New Delhi).
