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Bhopal: Fighting COVID-19 through ICCC
The ICCC in Bhopal City has emerged as a “City Level Corona Combat Center”, with stakeholders from different city administration units including Collectorate, Bhopal Municipal Corporation, Bhopal Smart City, Health Department etc. for efficient planning, monitoring, predictive actions and implementation of measures useful for citizen connect and city authority.
Action plans were prepared in coordination with various departments like District Administration, Municipal Corporation, Police Department, Health Department etc. The most important component of this action plan was to establish a unified control room so that coordination between different departments could be made and information exchange was possible in an easy manner. Bhopal already had an Integrated Command & Control Centre (ICCC) established under the Smart City Mission. It converted it into a 24X7 COVID war room.
ICCC: The COVID War Room
The ICCC Room is being used to counter the challenges on all fronts. ICCC has deployed more than 100 officers and employees in three consecutive 24 x 7 shifts. The city aspired to fight this tough time and make the most use of ICCC.
The ICCC is using data to:
A list of 725 passengers who had foreign travel history was provided by the State Government. All of them were registered with “Sarthak” app issued by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and had been home quarantined.
These citizens were listed, and their location mapped on GIS. Every day, information about their health and needs was collected and met from the control room and updated in the software. As of date 11,354 citizen’s data is registered on the Sarthak dashboard.
Households of COVID positive patients and their high-risk contacts are geotagged, and 200 m as well as 1 km buffer zone is prepared through GIS. Based on this information, barriers are fixed, and the prohibited area is declared as a containment zone.
Bhopal- Covid Dashboard
Dedicated Website for Bhopal
A website is used for monitoring the Allied Response Team which ensures that the team is continuously present on the field. All the 79 ward officers are geofenced ward wise i.e. their attendance would be marked as present only if they are present physically at their designated ward.
To overcome the pandemic, Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation Limited (BSCDCL) has integrated the State Helpline of Health ‘104’ and CM Helpline ‘181’ through SWAN.
The control room at ICCC is bifurcating calls into 8 categories as Type “A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H” as designated by the state. Through the PRI system the city has 10 helplines with the facility of recording calls.
Calls which require immediate medical attention are transferred to the Medical team who are in the same premises 24×7. Till date 40000 complaints/calls have been registered,out of which 38000 complaints have been satisfactorily closed.
Helpline and Tele-Counselling of Citizens
A 24*7 helpdesk has been setup at ICCC. The City government has taken a lead to form a “City Level Corona Combat Team”, with assigned roles and responsibilities. Multiple
Helpline Nos – 104 (Medical Helpline), 181 (CM Helpline), ICCC Toll-free Numbers, Whatsapp Numbers have been displayed through various channels across the City and publicized using FM, Social Media and related channels. All the grievances addressed through various modes are being routed to CCC. The Grievance Response team constitutes operators, heath officers and resident doctors. The Operator Manuals have been printed and published, while the operators are being trained according to well-defined SOPs.
BSCDCL developed a platform to cater the huge data coming from various sources and converging into the ICCC. In this system all the complaints/information which are being captured either through Helpline number, self-declaration information via Google forms for travel history, 14 check post information of Bhopal is being brought under a single link. With the help of this link if any complaint is entered in the system real-time SMS goes to the concerned Rapid Response Team (RRT) for respective action. Also, if any food complaint is received in the portal the same information gets transferred to the respective DE of Municipal Corporation Bhopal. The concerned RRT / DE are enabled to check the number of complaints pending and the complaints which were resolved by them.
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Impact and the road ahead
The ICCC was hence recommended to be leveraged by the authority as “COVID Combating Center” for the District and State Operations. The ICCC was already equipped with required infrastructure like call center facility, workstations, video walls, war room, video conferencing facility and many more.