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Losing the fight against Covid 19


 Losing the fight against Covid 19

It is not surprising to know the numbers of Covid 19 infected persons are rapidly increasing in the major cities and towns including the capital city, Kathmandu, after the government decided to ease lockdown. Health experts are repeatedly warning the government to immediately take necessary measures and precautions to stop spreading Covid 19 at the community level. If it happened, the situation will go out of its hand and there might be disastrous situation.


But, until now, the government and its concerned offices have totally failed to take necessary action in order to increase and establish health service outlets and increase PCR tests as promised. Nothing concrete measures have been taken so far.

I have shared the following links from The Kathamandu Post to highlight what is going on inside the valley after two weeks of easing lockdown.

Losing the fight against a pandemic, one battle after another
The government’s promise to set up more isolation beds in the Valley has failed to materialise while money allocated for provinces has not been properly utilised, officials say.
https://tkpo.st/2XJzpMa


 
If anyone is in isolation as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country, it’s the government. Officials say as more and more people got infected with the coronavirus, there were expectations that the authorities would increase the number of isolation beds. But that did not happen, according to them.
On March 17, a meeting of the high-level committee to fight Covid-19, held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, decided to set up 120 intensive care beds at six different hospitals in Kathmandu Valley.


After two weeks of reopening, hospitals are full. Worst is yet to come, doctors say
Public health experts say piecemeal efforts won’t help curb the virus spread and authorities must step up to increase testing, tracing and isolation beds.

https://tkpo.st/31vGVvy
On Friday morning, a man reached Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital. He wanted to inquire about the ambulance service. Not aware of who actually he was supposed to talk to, he had an altercation with the security guards. His gripe was that no one had sent an ambulance to pick him up.

Health workers at the hospital had taken his swab sample on Wednesday for a polymerase chain reaction test. The same evening officials at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division called him to inform him that he had tested positive for the coronavirus and that an ambulance would be sent to pick him up to take him to hospital.

“After waiting for two days at home for an ambulance, the man came to hospital on Friday,” a paramedic serving at the hospital emergency told the Post. “What is worrying is he used two public buses to reach the hospital.”

The man, in his early 30s, was finally admitted to the hospital.


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