Charges Of Lack of Covid Testing, Isolation Facilities In Rural Areas Untenable: Centre

Some Twitter users had tweeted about the management of COVID-19 in rural settings.

The Union Health Ministry on Friday termed the allegations levelled by Twitter users about the lack of Covid-testing, isolation and clinical management facilities at the village level and scarcity of PPE kits as "untenable". Issuing a statement, the ministry said the availability of rapid-antigen kits and the provision for swabbing for the RT-PCR test at a primary health centre located in a remote interior village in the hills, as brought out in some tweets, is testimony to the government's commitment to manage Covid in the rural and far-flung areas. Some Twitter users had tweeted about the management of COVID-19 in rural settings. The issues raised in these tweets include lack of testing, isolation and clinical management facilities at the village level, overmedication by healthcare workers, scarcity of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits etc., the ministry said in a statement.