COVID-19: Odisha’s Kalahandi testing lab to be purposeful in per week
By Express News Service
BHAWANIPATNA: The Kalahandi administration is planning to arrange a testing laboratory in per week’s time to beat the delay in receiving RT-PCR check stories. Collector Harshad Parag Gavali stated infrastructure for the lab is prepared and devices can be shipped from Mumbai.
“The swab samples are now being sent to Bhubaneswar every day in a special vehicle and it takes around five to seven days to get the reports, causing delay in early detection and treatment,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the surge in infections has unfold panic amongst residents of rural areas of Kalahandi who’re discriminating towards contaminated folks. Stigmatised, households of Covid sufferers are dealing with a troublesome time getting important commodities with store homeowners and vegetable distributors refusing to offer them service in worry of the virus.
In such a scenario, just a few Good Samaritans have come ahead to make sure that the contaminated usually are not discriminated towards. Dinesh Kumar Rout, a samiti member of Golamunda block bordering Chhattisgarh, has began a marketing campaign by way of social media asking needy folks to achieve out to him for assist.
He gives ration, greens and medicines on the doorstep of households battling Covid-19 aside from transporting folks to hospital in case of emergencies.
“This is the time for people to help each other and not discriminate based on fear,” stated Rout who gives service to round 50-60 households in several villages throughout the block.
