Ramp up vaccination by buying in bulk and including the private sector, Dr. Devi Shetty, founder of Narayana Health and head of Karnataka s Covid task force, tells the government. Dr. Shetty warns that we need to prepare for a third wave, not waste time discussing its likelihood.
Indian strain of COVID spread to 44 countries already: WHO
With a large section of health experts across the country predicting the possibility of a third Covid wave, Karnataka on Thursday decided to set up a high-level task force, headed by famous heart surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, to prepare for it.
Briefing media about his government s measures to tackle the Covid outbreak, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said that action to ramp up hospital infrastructure is still continuing with more ventilators and other equipment getting added regularly. Action is also needed to increase the oxygen generation capacity in the state which helps us be prepared for a potential third wave. We are setting up 127 oxygen generation units in the medical college hospitals, district hospitals and taluka hospitals, he said.
Thereâs No Logic In Delaying Induction Of Private Parties And Making Covid Vaccines Available For A Price
by R Jagannathan - Feb 22, 2021 06:07 AM
Faster vaccine rollout needed.
We cannot allow the best laid plans of
babus, mice and men to constrain our fight to roll out the vaccine faster than we had earlier thought was needed.
We have to induct the private sector, and also start pricing the vaccine for those who can afford it.
âWhen the facts change, I change my mind â and what do you, Sir?â
The authenticity of the above quote, attributed at various times to John Maynard Keynes, Winston Churchill, Paul Samuelson and even Joan Robinson, is not material. But it contains a huge truth in a situation where facts on the ground change dramatically from month to month, if not week to week, in dealing with the Covid pandemic.
I thank the doctors at the hospital for the treatment. I am absolutely fine. Hopefully, I will be ready to fly soon, Ganguly told reporters outside the Woodlands Hospital.
Ganguly, who was hospitalised on Saturday, spent five days in the hospital and will now be looked after at home.
The treating doctors will now be keeping a constant vigil on Ganguly s health and appropriate measures will be taken from time to time, the hospital said.
On Wednesday, it was informed that Ganguly, who is fit now, will be discharged from the Woodlands Hospital on Thursday. The former India skipper was scheduled to be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, but he decided to stay one more day in the hospital.