Industry physique CII has urged the federal government to take “strongest” nationwide steps together with curbing financial exercise to comprise the spike in COVID-19 circumstances within the nation.
CII President Uday Kotak has requested for highest-level response measures to deal with the rising wave of COVID-19 circumstances, as at the moment safeguarding lives is essential to chop the transmission hyperlinks.
“The healthcare infrastructure and provide build-up are being undertaken on an emergency foundation by the governments on the centre and states, however will take time.
“At this critical juncture when the toll of lives is rising, CII urges the strongest national steps including curtailing economic activity to reduce suffering,” the President has stated in a press release.
The chamber stated that the present tempo of day by day caseloads, the requirement for hospital beds and ICU beds, oxygen, and medicines will proceed to escalate.
“Healthcare and frontline workers are giving their best efforts to tackle the influx of patients, but it may not be possible to manage escalating caseloads with the present medical talent availability. We must heed expert advice on this subject – from India and abroad. Highest response measures are needed to break the chain of contagion and also use the time to rapidly build up capacity,” Kotak added.
CII additionally prompt sure measures akin to deployment of armed forces and central safety forces for logistics, infrastructure and personnel; safety at hospitals for medical personnel; tapping manpower sources akin to retired medical personnel, medical doctors and nurses; and distribution of vaccination provides to states in line with well-defined standards.
“Nursing and medical students who have finished GNM/BSC training and who are awaiting exams can be roped in and this can be counted for future requirements/credits after one year of COVID ICU work,” CII prompt.
Further, it requested for scaling up RT-PCR testing to double the present day by day numbers each in city and rural India.
The day by day COVID-19 circumstances in India confirmed a slight dip with 3,68,147 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, taking the full tally of circumstances to 1,99,25,604, in line with the Union Health Ministry knowledge up to date on Monday.
