There is a grave emergency looming in Delhi, the national capital.
With over 3,000 officially confirmed cases of COVID19 (the unofficial estimate is 38,000) and
at least 68,000 people identified as asymptomatic / presymptomatic, Dr, Nutan Mundeja (Dir Gen
Health/ GNCTD) is at her wits end.
1. 7 major Government hospitals have been sealed die to confirmed cases
2. The much awaited Chinese rapid test kits have been rejected as defective. 45% of the "negative" cases tested by Delhi Govt have turned out to be positive, considering that the incubation period of the virus is now as high as 38 days (and not 14 days like earlier thought based on Chinese disinformation).
3. The Central Govt does not allow her to purchase critical items directly and what is being provided is defective and vastly overpriced
4. The shortage of even basics like masks, gloves and shoe covers is so severe that Dr. Mundeja and her Addl DG Dr. Marak are having to wear home made cotton masks, and they get overly sensitive when asked why they approved 5 million N95 masks to be given free to schoolchildren without keeping any spare stock or records of the beneficiaries.
5. On 30 April 2 cases were confirmed inside Delhi Secretariat building and it was cordoned off for sanitization
6. With 68,000 people having contacted the Govt helplines claiming / exhibiting symptoms, Dr. Mundeja
does not know where to put them, or have staff to take care of them if they are quarantined as per protocol. So on 25th April a hastily drawn up set of "emergency" guidelines for "home isolation guidelines for 'mild' cases of Covid-19" were sent by her to be back notified by the Central Govt. These utterly insane emergency guidelines drafted by 2 American citizen interns imposed by Kejriwal may be the last straw for creating a wildfire of cases in Delhi, considering that there.is no such thing as a "mild" case of a viral disease like COVID19. These 2 American interns, on loan from a US MNC pharma major, were also responsible for the unsanctioned COVID plasma trials taken from Tabhighi recoveries in which 6 patients died in last 3 days
7. As it is, Delhi, like Telangana and Odisha, has belatedly realised that it is better to stop / slow down testing and leave it up to "herd immunity: to solve the problem.With tax money very short and salaries to be paid, these highly irresponsible governments will do anything to open their states again just so that the money keeps rolling in. So whereas publicly these govts may claim they want a lockdown extension, in private they just want Mr.Modi to announce the removal of lockdown if they can act like they have things/numbers under control.
8. But most importantly, Dr. Mundeja is worried because of 2 CBI cases likely to be registered against her
very soon for utterly insane actions she protested but was forced to implement under threats.
9. So when the Direc
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