Doctors of Tripura are repeatedly urging people to avoid gatherings during Durga puja. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb also made the same appeal.
In a message, Prof. Shib Sekhar Datta of the Tripura Medical College said, European countries are already witnessing the second wave of COVID-19. Second wave of COVID-19 is inevitable, and is going to be of 4-5 times magnitude than the present wave. Below is the graph of 1918 Spanish Flu. Festival season has arrived, so has winter. Choice is yours, stay home, stay safe.
Meanwhile, Tripura’s biggest government doctor’s body ATGDA told reporters on Wednesday as people are yet to be away from crowded areas despite repeated attempts and requests, “We are tired. Not only us, all the departments fighting the Covid 19 leading from the front are tired. And, now it’s up to the people as to how they deal with this situation during the Puja”.
Addressing a Press Conference, here in Agartala Press Club, ATGDA member Kanak Chowdhury said, “Enforcement agencies, doctors and police can not do anything. If someone is determined to go to the markets caring little to the threats of being infected, police and doctors can do nothing. Our back is already on the wall and now it is the time where strict enforcement is necessary to keep the people away who are defying all protocols”.
ATGDA General Secretary Dr Rajesh Chowdhury said, “hundreds of health workers have been infected in the line of action. When the state is already reeling under a serious crisis of doctors and nurses, there are many who are obstructed from joining duty due to the restrictions posed by the virus”. He also demanded that the government should consider recruiting 300 new doctors immediately to ease the excessive work pressure.
“Initially, many junior doctors and recent passouts, who are not in government service, worked in Covid wards on a temporary pay basis. but , unfortunately, now 80 percent of them are refusing citing family issues. and , this issue needs urgent redressal”, said Chowdhury.
On being asked on the recent decision of seat capacity passenger ferrying, he said, “We have just come across the news through various media this morning. We shall approach the high power technical committee formed for Covid 19 in GBP hospital and will try to attract the attention of government through this”.
