Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Odisha is among six states that have been reporting a high number of Covid cases for the past few days. To which the centre has deputed a high level team of experts to the state to access the situation and also suggest some remedial actions.
According to the reports, a two-member Central team, comprising a clinician and public health expert and a public health specialist at All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIH&PH) Dr A Dan will visit different worst-hit districts in the State.
The centre has been assigning Central teams from time to time visit so that they can put efforts to strengthen efforts of several states for covid management.
The report further added that the team expected to arrive in Odisha in the next couple of days will monitor the overall implementation of Covid-19 management, especially in testing, surveillance and containment operations besides Covid appropriate behaviour and its enforcement.
The team will also review the availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen and the progress of vaccination.
The health officials deputed to Odisha will interact with the State authorities and get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks, if any.
The team besides helping the State government with containment measures will submit a detailed report to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the steps taken to contain the spread of the disease and prevent deaths.
Other states where the multi-disciplinary teams have been sent are Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Chhattisgarh and Manipur.
