Srinagar, March 22: Taking a dig at poor healthcare facilities in Kashmir, Doctors Association Kashmir said that it is a known fact that COVID-19 is an top threat with high case fatality rate, demanding Government to wake up and designate Coronavirus hospitals in the valley and procure ventilators before it is too late.
Dr Naik said that there is threat of Covid-19 in Kashmir as one case is already positive from Srinagar and for every one positive case there might be as many as 20 undetected cases in community, so why Govt should upgrade the health system particularly by making available respiratory support system as Covid-19 is primarily a respiratory emergency.
Dar Naik said that Kashmir has nearly one hundred ventilators and all of them remain occupied at any point of time and it is very difficult for desired patients to get one. Our health care system has fragilities and we don’t have even evolved private health sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
But, now in addition to the perennial challenge, if we face an immediate crisis we can collapse as an institution & the health infrastructure in Kashmir is overburdened and it can’t take extra load and will crumble with any unprecedented crisis.
President appealed the Government to arrange Personal Protective Equipment for frontline health workers and N-95 masks. It said that it is mandatory to frame rotational duty roaster of health workers so that the frontline health force is not exposed to the dreaded virus.
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