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]]>The IMA further stated that the Supreme Court of India has adopted suo moto cognizance of the situation and has urged everyone to be on the lookout for the approaching third Wave.
As of now, Kerala and Maharashtra account for more than 60% of all coronavirus infections in India. Kerala has topped the list of states with the most new cases for several days now, and the trend is only going higher, with a test positive rate of more over 10%.
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]]>Drawing the Chief minister’s attention to the warnings of medical experts about a third wave of the pandemic in a letter, the IMA’s state secretary Amit Khanna asked him to not allow the proposed Kanwar Yatra to go ahead.
The fortnight-long yatra that begins with the onset of the month of Shravan around July 25 and goes on till the first week of August sees crores of Kanwariyas from neighbouring states like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh gathering in Haridwar to collect the holy waters of the Ganga.
The yatra had been cancelled last year too due to the first wave of COVID-19.
“We request you to disallow the proposed Kanwar Yatra in July-August, 2021, as the third wave of Covid pandemic is ready to knock on the doors of this country according to several specialists,” Mr Khanna said on behalf of the IMA in the letter.
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]]>Stressing that tourist bonanza, pilgrimage travel, religious fervour are needed, but can wait for a few more months, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), in a statement, said global evidence and the history of any pandemic suggest that “the third wave is inevitable and imminent”.
“However, it is painful to note that in this crucial time, when everyone needs to work for the mitigation of the third wave, in many parts of the country, both governments and the public are complacent and engaged in mass gatherings without following Covid protocols. Tourist bonanza, pilgrimage travel, religious fervour, all are needed, but can wait for a few more months.”
“Opening up these rituals and enabling people without vaccination to go scot-free in these mass gatherings are potential super spreaders for the Covid third wave,” the IMA said.
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]]>The IMA circulated a video on the social media, in which we can see that Baba Ramdev is defaming the company. He said,”allopathy ek aisi stupid aur diwaliya science hai…..”. He also claimed in the video that lakhs of people have died due to these medicines.
The IMA said,”The Union Health Minister (Harsh Vardhan) who himself is a practicing modern medicine allopathic postgraduate and head of this ministry, should either accept the challenge and accusation of this gentleman and dissolve the modern medical facility or boldly face and prosecute the person for his words of arson on the sovereignty of the Country and book him under the Epidemic Act to save millions of people from such unscientific utterances”.
IMA claimed that Ramdev is trying to take advantage of the situation and sell his own products. He is trying to create fear and frustration.
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]]>Ex-chief of IMA, Padma shri Dr. KK Aggarwal who was admitted to IIMS and was on ventilator support since last week also passed away due to Covid. Dr. Aggarwal was seen posting various videos from the hospital while battling Covid and in one such video he was seen saying “Picture abhi baaki hai…the show must go on.” Later his team started posting on his behalf.
The list showed maximum number of deaths of medical practitioners in Bihar, it was 78. Followed by 37 deaths in Uttar Pradesh and 22 in Andhra Pradesh.
— Dr KK Aggarwal’s HCFI (@DrKKAggarwal) May 17, 2021
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]]>The IMA cited government data and said 87,000 healthcare workers had been infected and 573 of them had lost their lives due to COVID-19. However, the Centre has not officially released these figures.
Noting that the data has raised concerns all across the country, the IMA said its data for doctors alone has registered 307 deaths and a total 2,006 infected. It said 188 of those died are general practitioners who are the first point of contact for people.
“Doctors suffer a higher viral load and a higher CFR (Case Fatality Rate) as a community. IMA is constrained to point out that they could have stayed back at home during the epidemic safely. They chose to serve the nation in the best traditions of the medical profession,” said the letter dated August 30.
The solatium approved by the government for their colleagues in government services in all fairness is deserved by the children of these martyrs as well, the association said.
“All doctors who have laid down their lives in fighting this epidemic should be treated at par with the martyrs of Indian Armed Forces and acknowledged appropriately. The surviving spouse or dependent should be provided a government job as per their qualifications,” the IMA said.
It also raised the issue that whatever solatium that is in place had failed to reach the beneficiaries due to the inadequacy of the chosen instrument and the “indifference”.
“The scheme is reported to have been lapsed as well. There is a pressing need to reconsider the same on merit and create a dedicated system to administer,” the IMA said.
A national scheme to support the “soldiers fighting a pandemic” cannot be allowed to degenerate into just another pecuniary benefit for government servants, it said. “We once again appeal to your goodself that such a sacrifice by doctors needs to be acknowledged by the highest office of the nation irrespective of the sectors,” the IMA said in the letter to Modi.
“We are also writing to you at this juncture since it has been predicted that India will top the world in number of cases in a few weeks. Healthcare manpower is precious. Uniform practices have to be put in place throughout the country,” it said.
The IMA said substantial differences were noticed from district to district in how doctors and healthcare workers were deployed. It asserted that districts were not sensitive to the safety angle, and the concerns of stress and fatigue of the medical manpower.
– PTI
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