In<b> </b>Karnataka, the Health Department has launched Doctors ride towards village side programme. Under this scheme, the Government provides necessary logistic support for the teams led by medical students to visit villages and provide better healthcare during the pandemic. AIR correspondent reports that MBBS final year students, BSc Nursing, BDS, MDS, Ayush graduating doctors are deputed to rural areas to carry out Covid tests.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">A team of medical students, nurses, ASHA and Anganwadi workers visit door to door to identify vulnerable members of the family and carry out tests. They also distribute medicine kits wherever necessary. After the Rapid Antigen tests, if the report arrived is positive, the team helps the patients to be admitted in a hospital or in Covid Care Centre. The primary and secondary contacts of the positive patients are traced and tested by them. Each team is given an ambulance for transporting the patients to a facility.</span><br />