82, 578 families surveyed in PCMC under ‘My family, my responsibility’
To break the chain of rising COVID, the state government announced a campaign, ‘My family, My responsibility’, on 15 September 2020. PCMC has surveyed over 82, 578 families in the last few days.
PCMC kicked off the campaign three days later on 18 September at the hands of the mayor of the city, Usha Dhore.
According to the information shared by city commissioner, Shravan Hardikar, it was found that 931 teams have been formed to carry out the campaign. These teams have been procured with a mask, sanitizer, hand gloves, oximeter and temperature gun to maintain the safety standards prescribed by the state government and to screen the people.
A total of 82, 578 families and 2, 63, 578 citizens of PCMC have been screened. On talking about the survey, the commissioner said, “We have, so far, reached 11 % of our total estimated survey. However, the main motive that we are looking forward to achieving out of this survey is the awareness among people to take precautions and care of their respective families. Apart from it, we are working in such a way that we will be able to soon break the chain of the rising positive cases in the city.”
On talking with the mayor of the city, Usha Dhore, about the campaign and its outcomes, she said, “We are going to benefit the most out of this campaign as each and every citizen will be screened, so that, we may have upper hand in breaking the cycle of the virus; and thus, all the tested COVID positive people will be either given treatment, or asymptomatic will be put under quarantine.”
The survey will also help the civic body understand the segment of people suffering with chronic disease like diabetes, heart problems and other problems, which puts people in high risk category; and thus, action policies and rules will be made. The work for SARS COV – 2 survey, too, is under progress, and is awaiting few technical completions before it gets launched jointly by Dr. Dy Patil College of Medical and research and PCMC.
The members of a few housing societies expressed their doubts on the campaign.
One of the residents Western Avenue, Ankit Saxena, while talking to Pune Pulse, said, “Actually the authorities from the civic administration intimidated us through a letter asking permission to screen and survey the society members. Initially, we were afraid of the same – mainly due to rising fraud in the name of survey – but later, we were convinced when we held a discussion with other authorities of PCMC regarding this campaign.”
On speaking with Abhay Wani from Shivangan society, Pimple Saudagar, he said, “I don’t believe in this Oxymeter. I have seen an incident where oximeter have shown different results on a same person at the same time. But I am glad that they have at least started doing something.”
