The Indian Medical Association on Saturday said the Union health ministry was showing “extreme lethargy” and taking “inappropriate actions”...
The Indian Medical Association on Saturday said the Union health ministry was showing “extreme lethargy” and taking “inappropriate actions” in dealing with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a press release, the medical body said that it has been insisting the Centre to impose a complete national lockdown for 10 to 15 days to “recoup and replenish” the country’s health infrastructure. Pointing out that the daily rise in new coronavirus cases has gone past 4 lakh and 40% of them were “moderate to severe” infections, the Indian Medical Association said that sporadic night curfews have not been effective in breaking the transmission chain.
#PMOIndia #NITIAayog #LargestVaccineDrive #IMAIndiaOrg IMA demands the health ministry wake up from its slumber and responds to mitigate the growing challenges of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/7OxKgLhi9Q
— Indian Medical Association (@IMAIndiaOrg) May 8, 2021
The medical body also criticised the Centre’s vaccination strategy and questioned the supply shortage. It termed the differential vaccine pricing system “unhumanistic”, and said that it leaves those in the age group of 18-45 “under the mercy of state governments”.
“It is unfortunate the [health] ministry has failed to make the necessarily required road map and ensure vaccine stock,” the release stated.
As per the Centre’s vaccine policy for the third stage of inoculation, those in the...
