Nashik: The Nashik zilla parishad has launched a new application titled Sach — an abbreviation for survey and analysis of Covid-19 comorbid health — in the Sinnar taluka on a pilot basis to track the health of people with comorbidities in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 infection.
The app was inaugurated by ZP president Balasaheb Kshirsagar. Addressing the gathering at the launch, ZP CEO Leena Bansod said: “In our effort to arrest the spread of Covid-19, we have decided to conduct periodic health surveys of people with comorbid conditions with the help of the Sach app. It will help us detect the infection and initiate timely treatment and, in turn, avoid fatalities.”
The application has details of 40,148 people in Sinnar taluka who either have comorbidities or are aged above 60 years.
The application has their health records pertaining to conditions like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, cancers, kidney ailments, chronic illnesses etc. Guided by the data available via the app, health teams equipped with smartphones, will visit the vulnerable people twice every week and update the health parameters on the application. Depending on their health condition and need for medical intervention, people will be classified in three categories, which will reflect on the dashboard at the district health office in the Nashik ZP.
“Thereafter, a referral programme will be designed and the community health officer will be given the responsibility of leading patients to the Covid care centres or covid hospitals,” another senior officer from the DHO said.