Improvement in collection of COVID-19 related data at PHC level

It will be captured in the Public Health Activities Surveillance and Tracking portal and accessible to all stakeholders

Lessons from combating the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have helped the civic body plug gaps in the system, and help the city fight the second wave better. The civic body’s health department has designed a new portal named Public Health Activities Surveillance and Tracking (PHAST) that integrates all COVID-19 related data at the Public Health Centre (PHC) level for the first time. “This will not only rightly put PHCs at the centre of the fight against the virus but also plug all gaps and empower PHCs to make data-based interventions,” said a senior Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) official.