Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 30: The Directorate of Health Services Kashmir today said to have conducted more than 30,000 Covid-19 tests, terming it a record number so far.
Spokesperson of Directorate of Health Services Kashmir, Dr Mir Mushtaq while quoting Director Health Services Kashmir Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Rather said that Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical Education Department Atal Dulloo has been constantly directing the department to do more and more tests.
Accordingly, he said, the DHSK has directed the field staff to enhance the testing capacity.
The spokesperson said despite having a low positive rate, aggressive testing has been extended in all the hospitals. On the directions of the Director of Health Services Kashmir, special sampling counters have been created across Kashmir including the tertiary care hospitals.
“As part of the continuous testing measures, on Wednesday alone, we have conducted more than 30,000 tests which is the record number so far,” the spokesman said.
On the directions of DHSK, all the Chief Medical Officers have constituted three special teams in each block who monitored the vaccination and the sampling process.
Similarly, the spokesman said such teams have also been created at the divisional level which monitored the sampling process across the Kashmir division.
“Although the Covid cases have come down, we need not to relax. We should continue to do aggressive testing because it is only by means of testing we can detect the cases which is mandatory for containing the virus,” the Director has said.
While congratulating field staff for their exemplary work, the Director has said testing is important for disease containment and it will continue until the Covid-19 pandemic is over.
The DHSK is going to apply a similar strategy for increasing the Covid-19 vaccination across the Kashmir division.
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