Central team expresses satisfaction over State’s COVID-19 containment measures: Veena George

The team had also expressed happiness at the progress made in COVID-19 vaccination by the State, Veena George said.

The two-member Central team which had toured three districts in the State to assess Kerala COVID-19 containment has expressed satisfaction over the manner in which the State has been managing containment as well as patient-care activities. The team had expressed full satisfaction over the State’s basic health infrastructure, including hospital facilities for patient care as well as clinical management of COVID patients, according to an official statement issued by the Health Minister Veena George on Thursday. The team, including Ruchi Jain, Public Health specialist at the Office of the Regional Health and Famiuly Welfare and Vinod Kumar, Pulmonary Medicine consultant at JIPMER Puducherry, had toured Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Pathanamthitta and had visited the General Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam Government Medical College and General Hospital at Kolenchery. They had also interacted with senior health officials before they held gave their final comments to the Health Minister.