SHILLONG: The Deputy Commissioner, East Jaintia Hills in a press release issued here informed the general public that in order to combat bias and stigma related to COVID- 19 and to create a contact tracing team, a Village COVID-19 Management Committee has been constituted in every village.
The committee will comprise of the headman of the village as the chairman, the secretary of the village as the member secretary, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM), Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), Anganwadi, two male village elders, two female village elders, church representatives and voluntary NGOs who will be identified by the village authorities.
The function of this committee is to collectively work to contain the spread of the virus, to sensitize the public, to propagate social distancing and public health measures, to sensitize the public about home quarantine and control room, to create extensive awareness and to emphasize individual responsibilities, to identify vulnerable pockets/ population, to know the sign and symptoms, to take steps to counter the contagion of bias and stigma, to form a contact tracing team at every village to trace any symptomatic person or put into action in the event of any known positive cases among others.
