Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 16: Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association Jammu today demanded imposition of lockdown in the Union Territory for two weeks keeping in view sharp rise in the COVID-19 deaths.
The Bar in a meeting held under the chairmanship of its president Abhinav Sharma discussed sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths in the Union Territory and lack of facilities in medical institutions to deal with the situation.
“The deadly disease has taken a turn for the worst and it is feared that cases have spiked due to community transmission particularly in Jammu division, which has during the last few weeks noticed exponential rise in the positive cases and more deaths per day than in the valley of Kashmir”, the Bar said in a statement issued after the meeting.
Expressing serious concern over insufficient infrastructure, medical officers, paramedical staff and sanitization in the so called premier medical institutes, the Bar said, “even the lives of medicos, para medicos and health workers are not safe in the medical institutions as such administration is required to immediately upgrade the existing COVID-19 designated institutions and to create more such institutions in order to save the lives”.
“In order to contain the disease, all the private hospitals particularly the Narayana Hospital Katra be declared as Administrative Quarantine Centre/ designate COVID- 19 hospital and be opened to the general public as well instead of accommodating only the VVIPs”, the Bar said, adding “the impression gathered by the general public that Narayana Hospital is meant to accommodate only rich and VVIPs is required to be dispelled with by the administration by opening up this institution to the public at large”.
Pointing towards the predictions of health experts that things will worsen in the coming days, the Bar demanded that at least two weeks lockdown be imposed in the Union Territory for regulating the existing quarantine centres which are at present totally unregulated, enabling the administration / management of existing medical institutions to regulate those institutions within the available strength and to create more quarantine centres.
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