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SRINAGAR: Three top Kashmir doctors who were flown to Jammu for discussions with doctors and understand the factors responsible for high mortality have submitted a detailed report. They have had interactions with the GMC Jammu principle and all the relevant heads of the departments for an assessment to understand the trend.
Government Medical College, Jammu
“This is slightly complex and we have conveyed it to the government,” one of the three top experts, told
Kashmir Life on phone, moments after the interactions were over on Wednesday afternoon. “The health infra is too much centralised in Jammu and then there are a lot of cultural issues in which patients prefer hospital as the last option.”
Says majority of variants more prevalent in this part of UT
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, May 12: Unraveling the mystery behind maximum COVID-19 related deaths in Jammu province during the 2021 surge, Apex Level Advisory Committee has pointed out that majority of the variants of the disease and Indian Double Mutant are more prevalent in this part of the Union Territory as compared to Kashmir region because of several reasons.
Accordingly, it has suggested that strict enforcement of COVID appropriate behavior and intensification of vaccination drive are imperative steps to effectively fight the surge and control the prevailing worrisome situation.
Quoting the findings of the Apex Level Advisory Committee, official sources told EXCELSIOR that of the 306 samples sent from Government Medical College Jammu, sequences from 228 samples had been generated and the reasons for the inability to sequence other samples included either poor quality of samples or insufficient volume of the samples.
Representational image. | PTI
With more than 3,00,000 new Covid-19 cases a day and hospitals and crematoria facing collapse, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called the situation in India “beyond heartbreaking”.
The central government has blamed the people for not following Covid-safe public health directives, but recent data shows mask use has only fallen by 10 percentage points, from a high of 71% in August 2020 to a low of 61% by the end of February.
And the mobility index increased by about 20 percentage points, although most sectors of the economy and activity had opened up. These are modest changes and do not adequately explain the huge increase in cases.