India Further Ramps Up Testing To Curb The Spread of COVID-19
India Further Ramps Up Testing To Curb The Spread of COVID-19
India Further Ramps Up Testing To Curb The Spread of COVID-19
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as on : 3 August 2020,
Speaking to WHO personnel who are based in all states/UTs in India, via video
conference in April 2020, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health & Family
Welfare said, “WHO is an important partner in our fight against the COVID-19. I
really value guidance and contributions made by the WHO in containing spread of
COVID-19 across the country.”
The WHO Country Office for India (WCO India) has been working closely with the
Government of India (GoI) to step-up preparedness and response measures for COVID-19,
including surveillance and contact tracing, laboratory testing, risk communications and
community engagement, hospital preparedness, infection prevention and control, and
implementation of containment plan at all three levels of the health system – national, state
and district. The entire field presence, including the National Public Health Surveillance
Project, consisting of more than 2000 personnel has been fully re-purposed to support the
government to overcome this challenge.
At the national level, WCO India is providing technical support to the Ministry of
Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) through the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) and
working closely with National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR), National Disaster Management Authority and NITI Aayog.
WHO teams are also supporting National and State Governments in ensuring
essential health services such as immunisation, reproductive maternal newborn child
and adolescent health (RMNCAH), non-communicable diseases and priority
communicable diseases are available.
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