Following the rapid growth of positive cases of the pandemic, the Andhra Pradesh government took a unique step in conducting tests to detect the virus and as part of this, the reports of the tests will be directly sent to the persons.
The reports will be sent as SMS to the registered mobile. The officials said that this will give an advantage for the person who tests positive to seek medical assistance without any delay.
Recently some miscommunication took place between the medical labs and the superintendents of the hospitals when it comes to results of the tests. To counter this the government took this step.
With this, they need not wait for the medical reports and can directly know the status of the health whether they got infected with the virus or not and take all the required precautionary measures.
The SMS system was started as a pilot project from the Anantapur district and the authorities received positive results with this. So they are eyeing to implement the same throughout the state.
Those who undergo tests for the pandemic will receive a message on the name of the District Collector. If they test positive a message will be sent on the ID number as per the list with a sorry message for getting infected with the virus.
The reports will be sent as SMS to the registered mobile. The officials said that this will give an advantage for the person who tests positive to seek medical assistance without any delay.
Recently some miscommunication took place between the medical labs and the superintendents of the hospitals when it comes to results of the tests. To counter this the government took this step.
With this, they need not wait for the medical reports and can directly know the status of the health whether they got infected with the virus or not and take all the required precautionary measures.
The SMS system was started as a pilot project from the Anantapur district and the authorities received positive results with this. So they are eyeing to implement the same throughout the state.
Those who undergo tests for the pandemic will receive a message on the name of the District Collector. If they test positive a message will be sent on the ID number as per the list with a sorry message for getting infected with the virus.