By Express News Service
ROURKELA: Faced with the unprecedented disaster posed by the COVID-19 second wave, the Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) is attempting to be taught from previous shortcomings and decided to include the pandemic. Like the primary wave, Rourkela metropolis continues to be the nucleus of virus unfold within the district.
The RMC got here in for lots of criticism in dealing with the surge in circumstances within the metropolis. As of now, it accounts for 76.57 per cent of seven,536 energetic circumstances in Sundargarh. But in a show of resilience, the civic physique together with assist from the district administration is placing its finest foot ahead to carry the state of affairs underneath management.
Well-placed sources in RMC mentioned the challenges are diverse and lots of, however staff are making honest efforts of their assigned jobs, working additional hours with no mounted routines and have risen to the event gracefully.
Within a brief span of time, it activated three Covid Care Centres with mixed mattress power of 1,078 together with 117 with oxygen assist and 12 with oxygen concentrators.
They mentioned 400 extra CCC beds with oxygen assist would come up shortly, including that final yr’s expertise in operating CCCs has helped so much. The civic physique can also be operating a 24X7 devoted assist line.
This aside, RMC has 9 mounted pattern assortment and testing centres, 7 cellular centres and 5 such centres managed by non-public events.
There are 20 Rapid Response Teams (RRT) to cater to the massive variety of folks underneath dwelling isolation. As per official data, of 5,771 energetic circumstances, 5,577 sufferers are in dwelling isolation as on Thursday.