Attacks on Health Care Monthly News Brief - April 2021
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Burkina Faso
30 April 2021: In Dori city, Seno province, an ambulance transporting a patient was fired at by suspected ISWAP militants. No injuries were reported. Source:
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Burundi
05 April 2021: In Mwaro province, a nurse from the Tutsi ethnic group was attacked by members of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD), allegedly for refusing to join their political party. Source:
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Cameroon
07 April 2021: In Kumbo city, Bui department, Northwest region, suspected Ambazonian separatist fighters stormed and fired gunshots at the Saint Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital/Shisong Cardiac Centre, before abducting three nurses for allegedly allowing one of their members, who had been poisoned, to die. Source:
Doctors boycotted out-patient sections in protest against the conduct of Deputy Superintendent of Police Velmurugan in ill treating two doctors in Paramakudi on Wednesday.Expressing their solidarity,
Coimbatore: The Tamilnadu Government Doctors Association recently submitted a set of recommendations to the state government to control the rising number of Covid-19 cases.
In a statement, association president K Senthil said that the government should enforce social distancing at public places, including shops and markets. “Shops should deliver essential items at doorsteps, so that people don’t have to step out of houses,” he said. “Work-from-home option should be encouraged at government and private offices. Only one-third of the workers should be allowed to use offices at any given point of time.”
To generate herd immunity and control spread of the virus, mass vaccination drive should be organized, Senthil said. “The government should take steps to ensure uninterrupted supply of oxygen for patients. Liquid-oxygen plants should be set up in all hospitals. Biomedical engineers should be deployed to ensure proper maintenance of ventilators and oxygen supply system. No
Association demands resumption of counselling and payment of due incentives
The Tamil Nadu Government Doctors’ Association has given several suggestions to contain the spread of COVID-19. It suggested that organisations volunteering to administer vaccines should be given a target to inoculate a certain number of persons through mass vaccination drives. This would help to achieve herd immunity and thereby prevent the spread of the infection, the association said.
The government should ensure that groceries and essentials reach the doorsteps of residents, instead of them having to visit shops and market. Shops should be permitted to function for specific hours in the morning and evening to prevent crowding.
Express News Service
CHENNAI: The second wave of the pandemic has hit Tamil Nadu at the most inopportune moment when the State is waiting for the next government to take over. Some doctors and experts are of the opinion that the one month transitional phase between polling and announcement of results, when there isn’t a full-fledged government in place, may impact how the State responds to the pandemic.
“The doctors have not received their special Covid pay for one month. Doctors who tested positive have not received the promised Rs 2 lakh compensation, and families of doctors who died of Covid have not received the promised Rs 50 lakh solatium during the same period,” says Dr S Perumal Pillai, president of the Legal Coordination Committee for Government Doctors.