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Cannot lower guard

Cannot lower guard
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The threat from Coronvirus in Jammu and Kashmir is increasing with every passing day. Primarily, because people belonging to this region have started arriving back to their homeland from those regions where the deadly virus has hit the most.

This includes Iran, China and many other countries where people from this region were either studying or had gone for personal visits or pilgrimages. The arrival of people from these regions has created an increased risk. But this risk can be tackled with ease provided we do not act fretful and not do the job of screening the incoming arrivals seriously.

Just the other day the divisional authorities ordered suspension of a medico and other official for dereliction in duties at the Srinagar airport as no screening was done on a person who had a travel history of visit to a coronavirus affected country.

Though this may be termed as a rare miss, but the fact of the matter is that the screening of incoming passengers is too compliant at the Srinagar airport. Arming one or two persons with mini thermal scanners to check any incidence of feverish patients cannot qualify for establishing a full fledged screening mechanism that the protocols demand while fighting a pandemic.

The healthcare facilities we have here are no hidden secret. We have a very fragile and unplanned health services that does not know how to react to normal developments not to say about situations that are very telling in nature. We have a health department that is marred by political interventions rather than contemplating on issues concerned to develop the healthcare infrastructure here.

We have numerous instances where the developed countries like China, Italy and even Iran have failed healthcare facilities which were up to the mark when corona struck.

Even Italy on Sunday recorded 368 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, its highest one-day increase to date, taking the total to 1,809, the most outside China. We have news reports that Italy has failed to provide the much needed ICU’s for the coronavirus shit patients. Even though China proved to be a bit assuring, it too failed on several counts.

In such a scenario where official records put the number of travelers to Jammu and Kashmir at 2157 as being under surveillance for coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir, we need to be more prepared to deal with the situation.

Since our efforts cannot do wonders to improve the infrastructure needed to fight the deadly virus but we can be serious about precautions that too at individual levels rather than collectively.

Though authorities should issue and adhere to directives including imposition of ban on conferences, rallies and protests for the coming weeks, the people too need to act wisely and avoid all unnecessary social contacts for the sake of avoiding the spread of any viral infections.

 

 


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