Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 1: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag, Hasnain Masoodi today cautioned LG Administration against any complacency in war against COVID-19 pandemic.
Masoodi said that the tall claims made by the administration as regards preparedness to take up the challenge and commitment to employ all tools to defeat the deadly pandemic do not match the situation on ground.
Expressing his serious concern over non-availability of important diagnostics kits such as RT- PCR in some of the hospitals and alarming deficiency of such and other COVID combat components in almost all the hospitals across south Kashmir, Masoodi said, “Tracking, Tracing and Testing being of utmost importance in overall strategy to fight the pandemic. The administration cannot afford to be complacent in providing diagnostic tools to our hard pressed frontline warriors engaged in battle against COVID – 19 pandemic.”
He further said that as per the available information administration has surprisingly fixed a target of 750 RAT and 750 RT-PCR tests per day for a population of 1.2 million in Anantnag district and like unrealistic targets in other districts; that as people in large numbers throng hospitals to have COVID tests done, it is becoming near impossible for healthcare workers to restrict the tests to the fixed target, resulting in shortage of kits.
Masoodi asked the Administration to be realistic in fixing per day targets and accordingly make available diagnostic kits to the hospitals in all the districts. “It is distressing that while millions of rupees are spent on advertisements through electronic and print media exhorting people to go for vaccinations, when people queue up outside healthcare centres, they are sent back without vaccination,” he said.
“Delay in procurement of vaccines, now admitted by the Government is attributable to absence of leadership and resultant lack of accountability,” he said.
Member Parliament demanded that in battle against deadly epidemic leadership roles be assigned to a senior officer, so that a sense of accountability is inculcated and responsibility fixed for lapses, if any, in meeting the challenge.
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