Health authorities maintain control center for traceability of COVID-19 cases

By TVN News Editorial Office

16/02/2021 – 17:56

The Metropolitan Region of Health keeps active the Operations Center for Community Control and Traceability (Cocytc), which focuses on the information sent by the Gorgues Commemorative Institute for Health Studies (Icges) with the results of positive patients for their monitoring, control and traceability.

The head of Public Health of the Metropolitan Region Ana Lorena Chang explained that all the results are validated by coordinators they have with the medical staff, then they are divided in each health center, so that traceability can be performed in the field.

He detailed that field traceability covers the delivery of bags with food, delivery of medicines and medical assistance, carried out by the unified traceability team composed of health personnel, volunteers, staff of government entities, the Joint Task Force (FTC), municipal, regional and local authorities to achieve this effectiveness of traceability to a positive patient and the their close contacts.

Within the operation of the Cocytc, the traceability team that is on site is responsible for making daily calls for the report and with this list are derived the close contacts for the sampling by swab in the various health centers with its Rapid Response (ERR) equipment.

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