Hyderabad: Municipal Administration & Urban Development (MA&UD) Department Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar on Saturday directed that all medical shops be asked to collect details of people purchasing medicines for fever, cough, etc.,
“It is observed that due to some level of hesitation and perceived social stigma, people suffering from fever, cough etc & other symptoms which might be similar to in hats with the virus are approaching the medical shops directly on their own & asking for fever medicines etc.
It is imperative that in a pro-active manner, we follow up on these cases which are having fever & other such symptoms which might be similar to those from virus. We should be able to contact these patients and get a test conducted depending upon the symptoms.
You are requested to convene a meeting with all medical shops including their associations / pharmacists association and instruct them to necessarily take their phone number and contact address of people who are coming to buy these medicines,” the Principal Secretary said in his letter to Zonal and Deputy Commissioners of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), all Additional Collectors and all other Municipal Commissioners in Telangana State.
The Principal Secretary said that the medical shops should hand over that list to the locla municipal authorities and they should maintain a directory of all such cases and get the tests done on cases which are having symptoms.
“The shop keepers also should tell the purpose to the people that it is for their benefit. This will go a long way in containing the spread of virus in a pro-active manner,” he said. (INN)