Kolkata civic body to begin health survey of senior citizens

Two weeks after the West Bengal government has decided to create a database of senior citizens living on their own in high-rises in Howrah, Kolkata and Bidhannagar, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken the initiative towards collecting the health data of elderly people living in the 144 wards in its jurisdiction.

This database will be more informative than the one planned earlier, and it will include all areas. Tension factor is the fatality rate (CFR) in the capital, Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, and he is the nodal officer for Covid-19 management in Kolkata, on Wednesday he gave an order that all municipal officials should assemble in the meeting and they were instructed to begin the survey.

The aim of this meeting was to identify the major diseases among the elderly population, which is the most vulnerable to Covid-19. The health authorities expect that this database will help them to manage the treatment of senior citizens and bring down the CFR in Kolkata, which is 1.25 percentage points higher than the statewide figure. To date, 1,154 people have died of Covid-19 in the city, consisting of almost 43 percent of the state’s toll.

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Updated by Bidisha Roy Choudhury

News source: Indian Express