ITANAGAR, Jul 19: The All Nyishi Youth Association (ANYA) has expressed its resentment over the plethora of difficulties being faced by the state’s frontline Covid-19 workers and the lackadaisical management of quarantine centres by the state government.
Through a press release issued on Sunday, ANYA has attributed the recent alarming rise of Covid cases and three deaths in the state to “serious loopholes and compromised monitoring system.” Questioning the effectiveness of the state’s Covid response mechanism, the association said that people want to know from the dispensation exactly how many designated and dedicated Covid hospitals have been created so far. 
Citing the example of TRIHMS which is now functioning as the state’s lone Covid referral hospital, ANYA termed the idea as “myopic and ill-conceived” as it has deprived the normal patients needing routine medical attention. It has also lambasted the state government for failing to create a separate Covid-19 hospital in and around the Itanagar Capital Region despite availability of sufficient funds from the central government. While seeking the reason for not arranging a separate dedicated Covid-19 pandemic home for accommodating the doctors and frontline workers battling the pandemic, the release said that the practice of attending duties from home increases the chances of spread of the virus and is also against the WHO-mandated SOPs. In this regard, the association has urged the government to create a separate Covid-19 pandemic home immediately for the frontline workers. “The Minister of Health & Family Welfare lacks relevant knowledge, is handling the issue unprofessionally on a trial and error basis and has also blatantly flouted the ICMR guidelines by reducing the 14-day mandatory quarantine to 3 or 5 days,” the release said. Calling it an ill-conceived decision, the association claimed that it has been the root cause of community transmission and complained that there were severe laxity in enforcement of the mandatory 14-day home quarantine norm needed to be observed by the returnees with several instances of flouting of the SOPs by the family members of VIPs.

Besides placing the demand for ensuring adequate Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for all frontline Covid fighters in the state, the association has sought immediate measures for steady availability of critical Covid-19 medicines and publishing of compulsory health bulletins or briefings that would reflect the updates and latest guidelines. Along with seeking an improvement of dietary provisions at the quarantine centres, the association said that the testing capacity must be increased to 10000 per day.
ANYA has also demanded that a ‘white paper’ on Covid receipts and expenditures including that of the Central contributions and the details of the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund must be published by the state government for ensuring accountability and transparency. ANYA PR 

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Kenter Joya Riba

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