Health authorities maintain a control center to follow up on COVID-19 cases

By TVN Noticias Newsroom

16/02/2021 – 5:56 PM

The Metropolitan Health Region maintains the Community Operations Center for Control and Traceability (Cocytc), where the information sent by the Gorgas Commemorative Institute for Health Studies (Icges) focuses on the positive patients’ outcomes for the follow-up, control and traceability of the the same.

Ana Lorena Chang, Metropolitan Regional Health Director, explained that all results are validated by coordinators with medical staff, and then distributed to each health center so that traceability can be carried out in the field.

He explained that covers traceability in the field delivery of bags with food, delivery of medicines and medical assistance, performed by the uniform traceability team consisting of health personnel, volunteers, government agency personnel, the Joint Task Force (FTC), municipal, regional and local authorities to achieve the effective traceability to a positive patient and their close contacts.

Within the operation of the Cocytc, the traceability team still present is responsible for making the daily calls for the report and with this list close contacts are made to take samples by means of swabs to the various health centers with their rapid response teams (ERR).

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