{"id":92033,"date":"2020-02-01T01:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=92033"},"modified":"2020-02-01T01:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:15:51","slug":"preparedness-against-ncov-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/preparedness-against-ncov-discussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparedness against nCoV discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YUPIA, Jan 31:<\/strong> Papum Pare DC Pige Ligu held a coordination meeting with the district medical officer, members of the district surveillance unit, and administrative officers here on Friday to review the district&#8217;s preparedness for the novel coronavirus (nCoV) and to discuss preventive steps against it.<br \/>\nThe DC directed the DMO to &#8220;circulate the dos and don&#8217;ts, travel advisories and guidance documents to all MOs and administrative officers&#8221; to spread more awareness on the nCoV in their respective areas.<br \/>\nHe also directed the DMO to set up a control room to respond to queries on coronavirus in the district.<br \/>\nDMO Dr Subu Tasso Kampu stressed the need to spread more awareness on precautionary measures against coronavirus, and DSU epidemiologist Ili Angu made a PowerPoint presentation on the nCoV.<br \/>\nEast Kameng DC Gaurav Singh Rajawat also on Friday convened a coordination meeting in Seppa with the district surveillance unit and other stakeholders.<br \/>\nThe DC urged the health department to immediately open a &#8220;24&#215;7 control unit&#8221; in the district hospital &#8220;to deal with occurrence of any kind of untoward cases related to coronavirus outbreak.&#8221;<br \/>\nSuggesting issuing a travel advisory to the people, Rajawat directed the department to &#8220;put in place a mechanism of surveillance and contact tracing through integrated disease surveillance programme.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe also advised the health department to circulate the dos and don&#8217;ts with regard to the nCoV.<br \/>\nADC Pravimal Abhishek Polumatla, DMO Dr Lal Chand Darung, District Surveillance Officer (IDSP) Dr Kopi Gyadi, MOs and other health staffers attended the meeting. (DIPROs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YUPIA, Jan 31: Papum Pare DC Pige Ligu held a coordination meeting with the district medical officer, members of the district surveillance unit, and administrative officers here on Friday to review the district&#8217;s preparedness for the novel coronavirus (nCoV) and to discuss preventive steps against it. The DC directed the DMO to &#8220;circulate the dos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}