Delay in vaccination fanned Covid crisis: CPI
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 15 2021:
COVID-19 vaccination could have been completed within three or four days by taking up mass vaccination programme but the state government's delay in inoculated the citizens has led to rapid spread of the virus, alleged CPI Manipur State Council assistant secretary M Joykumar.
He also observed that the vaccination programme for 18-44 years needs proper planning to complete within few days.
The state CPI leader informed The People's Chronicle that vaccination is the only way to stop the virus from spreading from one person to another.
However, the state government's preventive measures against COVID-19 are full of mistakes as was witnessed during initial stage of vaccination programme.
He observed that as hundreds of people gathered at a particular vaccination centre where only 100 people per day are to be vaccinated, violation of SOPs by a single person in such crowded place spread the infectious disease.
The CPI leader further contended that only one percent of 28 lakh population of Manipur has been vaccinated so far and only .2 percent of the state's population have got the second dose of the vaccine.
This is based on vaccination done in the past one month or so and hence it would take several months to vaccinate the entire population of the state.
Taking several months to vaccinate the people would be disastrous and there would be high chance of spreading the virus further, he said, while reiterating that the government policy of containing the pandemic is marked by loopholes.
According to the CPI leader, only serious patients are being brought to RIMS and JNIMS hospitals for treatment but these hospitals lack doctors, nurses, medical oxygen and other immediate medical requirements.
Asking as to who is going to solve these problems, Joykumar pointed out that opening Covid Care Centres without doctors and nurses is meaningless.