Nagpur Updates: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) examined 2,246 persons suffering from tuberculosis (TB) to contain deaths and spread of Covid-19 cases from one relation as in Satranjipura case. The first and only death of Covid-19 in City so far, the 68-year-old resident of Satranjipura, was a patient with TB. His 56 members of his family and related associates have so far tested positive.
Municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe and his team including chief medical officer Dr. Yogendra Savai, additional medical officer Dr. Praveen Gantawar and others have already protected 25 lakh of the city’s 30 lakh population under a door-to-door survey of high-risk patients.
Mundhe told that “our team will track patients with TB on a regular basis. If required, we can easily isolate them, as we have their address and phone numbers. The next step is to reach out to all chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) sufferers. Patients with TB and COPD are people at high risk for Covid-19. In the case of Satranjipura we have witnessed the effects, “he said.
Dr. Savai said, “In the last nine days our drive has covered 2,246 patients with TB. The remaining 1,245 TB patients are registered with the government and 1,001 are private registered patients. Our teams reached all of them into their homes and directed them to regularly take medicines to protect them from Covid-19. They found four patients suffering from fever and cough.
We advised them to get immediately handled what they are doing. “Dr. Savai added,” NMC will start driving from Friday to reach out to patients with COPD. In our door-to-door survey of high-risk people, we have found people with COPD. “Dr. Savai also said TB and COPD patients are the ones who will need oxygen in case they get infected with coronavirus, so we leave nothing to chance.
