NIC’s COVID SURAKSHA - HOME QUARINTINE MONITORINGSYSTEM

In view of the outbreak of COVID19 pandemic, it was necessary for Home Quarantine of several citizens. But it was also felt that an appropriate system should be developed to monitor these quarantined people on a daily basis in order to keep an eye on their health. Accordingly, Surveillance Teams were formed consisting of ASHA, ANM & MPW. Each quarantined citizen was assigned one Surveillance team. But there was no proper mechanism available with the District Administration to monitor the functioning of the Surveillance team i.e. whether they have visited each of the quarantined members. Shri Biswajit Pegu, IAS and the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup Metropolitan District having confronted with such a scenario, requested the of National Informatics Centre (NIC) to provide an IT based solution. NIC, Assam State Centre suggested that a Mobile App based solution called COVID Suraksha may be used for this purpose. It has already been successfully implemented in Hojai district of Assam. The software has two parts – one is a web based application portal and the other is the mobile app. The solution is a simple, user friendly and most effective one.

At first, details of each of the quarantined members were collected and entered in the portal as a part of registration process. Similarly, details of Surveillance Team members (having Smart Phone) were also entered in the portal. On completion of the registration process, QR Code for each of the quarantined member were generated from the portal. The QR Code were printed and pasted on the front of the house of each of the quarantined members. The Surveillance Team during their visit will scan the QR Code of the quarantined member and fill a simplified questionnaire about patient's health whether having fever, cough etc. and send the same directly to the server using the App. The Kamrup Metro District Administration can now view the status of each of the quarantined member, submitted by the Surveillance Team members, from the Dashboard.

COVID Suraksha has been successfully rolled out in the Kamrup Metropolitan district, in collaboration with the district units of NHM and IDSP and at present covers 2,169 persons under home quarantine.