Latest News | COVID-19: Odisha's Ganjam District Distributes 10,000 Vials of Homeopathic Medicine to Frontline Workers

Berhampur (Odisha), Jul 18 (PTI) The Ganjam district administration has distributed around 10,000 vials of immunity-boosting homeopathic medicines to frontline workers engaged in different COVID-19 related activities, officials said on Saturday.

The vials were prepared by the government-run Biju Patnaik Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital here on the request of the chief district medical officer (CDMO) of Ganjam, they said.

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"We have already distributed those to the frontline workers in the first phase," the CDMO of Ganjam district, Uma Shankar Mishra, said.

The state government has recommended 'Arsenicum album 30' as a preventive medicine to boost immunity, which the Centre had approved, sources said.

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The number of coronavirus positive cases has crossed the 5,000-mark and more than 500 workers have been infected with the disease in the district.

A total of 52 patients have died due to the contagion in the district.

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