Odisha: When going will get powerful, ladies in Rapid Response Team get going

Express News Service
SAMBALPUR: For nearly two weeks now, Saloni Jain, a member of Rapid Response Team (RRT) has been on her toes. While her mornings are spent shifting across the slim lanes of town checking on sufferers in residence isolation, the evenings are spent making  cellphone calls to contaminated sufferers to inquire about their well-being and counselling. Even after 10 to 12 hours of obligation, she stays alert within the evening to take care of emergency calls from sufferers.

So much many ladies like Saloni – some medical officers, many anganwadi and ASHA staff – are part of town’s RRTs fashioned for Covid administration by the Sambalpur administration.A complete of 9 RRTs with two docs in every staff have been fashioned by the administration. Fourteen docs within the RRTs are ladies. Their obligation begins at 8 am day-after-day with visits to numerous localities throughout the 41 wards within the metropolis the place the sufferers are underneath residence isolation.  Since, 90 per cent of the sufferers within the metropolis are underneath residence isolation, they’ve to go to round 40 to 50 households on a mean every day. 

They monitor the well being parameters of the sufferers, inquire about their situation and take a word of their medication necessities. In the night, they get a recent listing of sufferers to follow-up over cellphone and likewise distribute medication kits to these in want.The obligation hours finish at 9:30 pm however work doesn’t cease. They have to stay alert to deal with misery calls at odd hours or prepare for ambulances for sufferers who must be shifted to hospital.

“We face a tough time dealing with the patients over phone. The Covid patients are mentally very weak and panic a lot. We have to counsel and assure them that they will be fine. In some cases, the patients get frustrated and shout at us. But we give our best to calm them down. We check on their health over the phone and remind them about their medicines”, mentioned Saloni.

Officials knowledgeable, as many as 200 ASHA staff, 363 anganwadi staff and 35 ANM are part of the energetic surveillance groups fashioned underneath the ward stage Covid administration committees. These ladies are enjoying a key position in  protecting a file of the sufferers of their designated locality, frequently visiting them and sensitising the opposite individuals within the neighbourhood about Covid precautions. They are the primary particular person to contact and are working relentlessly in the direction of containing the virus unfold.

The participation of a most variety of ladies in Covid administration within the district is drawing appreciation from all quarters. Saloni mentioned the job has its personal challenges and will get very hectic at instances. “But I am happy to lend a hand in this fight against Covid-19 virus”, she mentioned with a smile.