fight corona : doctors need 5 lakh body cover PPE daily, but do not have mask Ravish Kumar

Recall photos of Corona Coverage. Chinese doctors were seen in white body cover. His face was covered. Were wearing helmets. There was a mirror in front. Everything was covered from the head to the foot. This body cover has many parts. These are called Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) overall. In many pictures, the body cover was also sprayed so that no virus could accidentally come into contact with the body while unloading. This is also called Hazmat suit. It is worn only once. It has a process of wear and unloading. Wearing is called Donning. Unloading is called Doffing. Doffing requires a separate room. It is removed as if someone pulls a coat from behind. Then a bath has to be done which is with the same room and then the doctor comes out in his clothes.


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Doctors across the country are very concerned about these basic things necessary for their safety. His senses are blown away. How will they be treated when they become infected? In the same way, there are fewer doctors in the country, fewer nurses, what would happen if they became ill? If the doctors are not fully equipped with safety equipment, then they will not go close to the patient. So in the end the patients will pay the price.

You ask a simple question. For the sake of your doctors and nurses.

How many PPEs are currently available in India? How much silver-covered body cover PPE is there in every hospital where potential corona patients are screened or undergoing treatment?

Do you know that India needs five lakh PPE every day? Don't know how much it is. But according to the report of Caravan magazine, the government has ordered the government company HLL for this. To produce seven and a half PPE by May 2020 and 60 million N-95 masks and one crore three ply masks.

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Was this crisis hidden from the country? Did the government keep sleeping? It comes a while.

At the moment when I am writing this, there is a news from Darbhanga Medical College in Bihar that the doctors there have refused to work. They do not have the necessary gloves and masks. The doctors and medical students of Bhagalpur Medical College and Patna Medical College have raised their senses about how to get closer to the patient without the safety equipment. How can the government deliberately push them to death?

The Resident Association of AIIMS has written a letter to the director. When the RDA checked in the different wards of AIIMS, how many personal protective gear were there in emergency, it was found that most of the wards are not full of the necessary items for the safety of the doctors. The RDA has requested the AIIMS administration to make adequate arrangements for personal protective gear (PPE) for doctors and nurses.

Our colleague Anurag Dwari has sent a report from the hospital in Jabalpur. Where four positive patients of Madhya Pradesh are admitted. N-95 masks are not for all doctors in this hospital. For the one who is moving closer to the patient. It is not about PPE.

Isn't it criminal? December, January and February passed, what was the preparation in this case? Will our doctors be protected from speaking thank you, should not adequate safety equipment be prepared for them in advance? Then what were we doing in the name of preparation? Did we just lose two and a half months?

Now come to the report of the caravan magazine. You should read the full report. I am telling some part of it here. Vidya Krishnan reports.

Read the report of Caravan magazine. Its report is raising questions on why India could not collect safety equipment for doctors and nurses during two to three months? On 18 March, the Prime Minister addresses the nation. On 19 March, the government prohibits exports of PPE made in India. Three weeks earlier, on 27 February, the World Health Organization had stated that PPE supply could be disrupted in many countries. The government slept for three weeks. After all, why was it allowed to export from January to March?

The first case appears on 30 January in India. On 31 January, the Foreign Trade Directorate prohibits exports of all types of PPE. But on 8 February the government amends this order. Allows export of surgical masks and gloves. On February 25, when there were 11 deaths due to infection in Italy, the Government of India relaxed the order once more. Allows the export of eight new items. That is to say, the order of 31 January water-watering.

The result is that doctors and nurses in India today do not have safety equipment? Today doctors of India are not safe. They are at risk of infection. Now I will not talk about the plate anymore. But you will question whether everything will depend on Ram or it will also work. What is the use that doctors are treating Corona today, doctors do not have a Hazmat suit, PPE does not?

According to Caravan's report, workers of health organizations are upset about the decisions of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Textiles. Government company HLL has been made the nodal agency for the production of PPE. The All India Drug Action Network is about to write a letter to the Prime Minister to end the monopoly of HLL. In two and a half months, the government could order local manufacturers. Asola of All India Drug Action Network says that by May 2020, HLL has been asked to supply seven and a half lakh PPE, whereas 5 lakh PPE is required every day. You read the full report of the caravan. There will be stories of negligence that you cannot even imagine.

Are your life security being raised by raising all these questions on the news channels? I believe that such topics are being reported only on some newspapers and websites. News channels are still propaganda in the name of awareness. At least when you watch these channels now, note how much news is there about these questions and preparations and whether the claims are being tested. How to keep hands clean only and basic information is being given about the symptoms of the disease. There is no complete information about the preparation. There are such doctors who cannot raise two questions on the government. He is spending his time on TV. After all, why didn't these doctors create a ruckus for their junior doctors that they do not have PPE to wear. N-95 is not a mask. Why didn't these famous doctors create a ruckus? Are these doctors not guilty?

Propaganda also has a range. This was not a time for spectacle. What was India preparing for the last two and a half months that doctors and nurses did not even have security equipment?

Ravish Kumar