Ernakulam Rural police scale up activities of COVID-19 control room

Facility, among other things, ensures that oxygen trucks reach destinations without hiccups

The Ernakulam Rural police have intensified measures to check the spread of the raging pandemic. The control room set up at the district police headquarters to coordinate the activities to fight the pandemic has been further scaled up. It collects the details of those testing positive every day in rural limits by contacting the Health Department and handover the details to police stations concerned. The control room has been entrusted with an assortment of tasks, including arranging the transportation of infected patients to either first-line treatment centres or hospitals, organising food and medicines for those in need, updating superior officials about the positive cases being reported.