Health workers from civic bodies in Bidhannagar, South Dum Dum, Baranagar and other areas and health department officials will monitor the condition of Covid-19 patients in home isolation in these areas the health department has decided.

The monitoring will be separate from the one being done by tele-callers from Sasthya Bhavan.

Health workers of the civic bodies will ascertain whether a patient is responding to supportive treatment while in home isolation and whether his or her condition is deteriorating or not. They will be in touch with the heads of the local civic bodies and doctors in the Covid control room of North 24-Parganas. Based on their feedback, doctors will decide whether a patient needs to be shifted to hospital.

“The idea is to take a quick call on the level of medical support a Covid-19 patient needs and in the process, try and arrest deaths,” said an official of the health department in North 24-Parganas.

“Besides callers from Sasthya Bhavan, a separate team of tele-callers from the district control room will call patients’ relatives and find out about their conditions.”

North 24-Parganas has been recording the highest number of positive cases after Calcutta for some time now. On Monday, Calcutta recorded 861 positive cases and North 24-Parganas 852 cases.

During the day, senior health department officials met representatives of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation to discuss the blue-print of monitoring Covid patients. There is a possibility of a surge in Covid cases post-Kali Puja/Diwali, an official said.

“Many full-time medical officer posts are vacant in North 24-Parganas. These will be filled up soon so that patients in home isolation are better taken care of,” another official said.