NASHIK: As directed by the state government, the Nashik zilla parishad has ordered the gram panchayats to form village and prabhag-level Covid committees to monitor the health of every individual in the village.
Nashik district has 1,949 villages and the process of setting up the committees in each of the villages has begun. The progress will be monitored and the situation will be reviewed every 15 days.
“The government resolution on ‘Covid-free’ villages, is simple and self-explanatory. It expects each person of the village to be responsible for protection against the infection and teams will be set up for monitoring the same,” said Leena Bansod, the CEO of Nashik ZP.
The ward-level and village-level committees are to be set up to monitor the Covid situation. The committees, comprising gram panchayat members, health workers and teachers, have to visit every household regularly to check for Covid symptoms and report any abnormality to the health officials for immediate testing, tracking and if required treatment of the person.
Apart from this, The committees will ensure a vehicle that will ferry the Covid patient to the health institutions instead of relying on an ambulance.
“The villages are also expected to have isolation wards with all facilities of hygiene so that the Covid patients can be put up in these places. The committees have to ensure they have the rapid antigen testing kits available,” said a ZP health official.
The committees also have to ensure 100 % vaccination among the residents in their respective jurisdiction. The committees will have volunteers to look after the agricultural needs in case an entire family of a farmer tests positive or has been quarantined and also take care of the children, who lost either or both the parents to Covid.
The government resolution has laid out 22 conditions to evaluate the function of the committees. While each of the conditions carries 0.5 marks for 50% to 75% achievement, one mark for achievement up to 99 % and 2 marks for 100 % achievement.
