GUWAHATI: World Health Organization in appreciation of effective Covid-19 management in Assam has featured the state’s frontline workers in its news section with the headline “ASSAM: Frontline workers with muddy feet and hearts of gold.”
The feature story published on Wednesday has paid tributes to the state’s frontline workers saying, “In a state where 39.6 % of the area is prone to floods, according to Rastriya Barh Ayog in the Department of Water Resources, Government of Assam, large tracts of land are unreachable for many months during the year, which makes providing health care services a huge challenge.”
It adds, “The state of Assam in North-East India amalgamated testing, tracing and treatment with strengthening its strong primary health centres (PHC) to ensure Covid-19 pandemic response services reached everyone in the state, including communities in difficult-to-reach areas.”