Discord between doctors, Goa CM and health min affects Covid fight
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Panaji, May 5 : Differences at the top of Goa s Covid management pyramid appear to be affecting the state s battle against Covid-19, with the medical fraternity, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant not appearing to be on the same page vis a vis deaths at Covid facilities due to oxygen shortage.
While Rane has claimed that no deaths have occurred in the state due to oxygen shortage, the Goa Association of Resident Doctors has claimed the contrary. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has now blamed health officials, including Rane and the dean of the state s top government medical facility Dr Shivanand Bandekar for not informing him about oxygen shortage in health facilities.
India’s Goa state, a hugely popular tourist destination on the western coast, has the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in the country, with up to one in every two people testing positive in recent weeks, government officials said on Wednesday. Leaders of the small state, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing BJP party, were being blamed by the opposition and medical experts for ignoring pandemic protocols and allowing entry to tens of thousands of tourists this year in a bid to generate revenue. Two government-appointed medical officials working at the state’s COVID-19 data collection centre in the capital Panjim said the positivity rates in tests since April were between 40% to 51%, the highest in the country.
Goa Has Highest Covid Positivity Rate: Report Goa Has Highest Covid Positivity Rate: Report Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said the situation now was grim . A strict lockdown is the only way to limit the pandemic, Goa Health Minister said.
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Goa, a hugely popular tourist destination, has the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in the country, with up to one in every two people testing positive in recent weeks, government officials said on Wednesday.
Leaders of the small state, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi s BJP, were being blamed by the opposition and medical experts for ignoring pandemic protocols and allowing entry to tens of thousands of tourists this year in a bid to generate revenue.
Days after government resident doctors claimed that Covid patients in the state have died due to oxygen shortage, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has taken charge of the crucial aspect of oxygen management, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said on .