NEW DELHI: The latest norm of corona patients visiting Covid care centres for health assessment may become a new bone of contention between Delhi government and the Centre.
While chief minister Arvind Kejriwal called the order, announced by lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, chaotic and asked for its withdrawal, his deputy Manish Sisodia said Delhi now had two models to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“Under the Amit Shah model, Covid-positive persons are required to go to Covid care centres while under the Arvind Kejriwal model, health teams go to their houses,” Sisodia said. On Wednesday, Sisodia wrote to Union home minister Shah urging him to withdraw the new condition and restore the old system. On Tuesday, he wrote to Baijal.
“I have received many requests to reverse the home isolation order because it is not feasible for the people,” the chief minister said later. “Supposedly, your 80-year-old mother gets corona, and she is asymptomatic or has mild symptoms, and needs treatment at home. How will you take her to a quarantine centre or a government facility? At home, she will be better taken care of by her children,” he said.
As per the earlier order, Kejriwal said, a government medical team will visit a patient at his home for assessment and tell him if he needs home isolation or hospitalisation. “Can a corona-positive person who has a body temperature of 100°C or 102°C stand in a queue for a medical check-up?” He also pointed out that the Delhi and central governments were cooperating with each other in fighting the pandemic.
Sisodia said he had urged Baijal to call an immediate meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority to scrap the order. “The LG has not responded to my request, and no DDMA meeting has been called,” he said.
The norm has burdened the entire ambulance system, he added. “Now the administration has to arrange for buses to take people to these centres. This has created a huge chaos in Delhi.”
Sisodia said people were stressed about going to Covid care centres. “When the order of five-day mandatory institutional quarantine was issued, you intervened and rolled back the order for the convenience of the people,” he wrote to Shah.
“These decisions should be taken spontaneously. It is because the LG has not responded, I have written to Amit Shah-ji that his intervention is important as it is creating chaos,” Sisodia said.
While chief minister Arvind Kejriwal called the order, announced by lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, chaotic and asked for its withdrawal, his deputy Manish Sisodia said Delhi now had two models to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“Under the Amit Shah model, Covid-positive persons are required to go to Covid care centres while under the Arvind Kejriwal model, health teams go to their houses,” Sisodia said. On Wednesday, Sisodia wrote to Union home minister Shah urging him to withdraw the new condition and restore the old system. On Tuesday, he wrote to Baijal.
“I have received many requests to reverse the home isolation order because it is not feasible for the people,” the chief minister said later. “Supposedly, your 80-year-old mother gets corona, and she is asymptomatic or has mild symptoms, and needs treatment at home. How will you take her to a quarantine centre or a government facility? At home, she will be better taken care of by her children,” he said.
As per the earlier order, Kejriwal said, a government medical team will visit a patient at his home for assessment and tell him if he needs home isolation or hospitalisation. “Can a corona-positive person who has a body temperature of 100°C or 102°C stand in a queue for a medical check-up?” He also pointed out that the Delhi and central governments were cooperating with each other in fighting the pandemic.
Sisodia said he had urged Baijal to call an immediate meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority to scrap the order. “The LG has not responded to my request, and no DDMA meeting has been called,” he said.
The norm has burdened the entire ambulance system, he added. “Now the administration has to arrange for buses to take people to these centres. This has created a huge chaos in Delhi.”
Sisodia said people were stressed about going to Covid care centres. “When the order of five-day mandatory institutional quarantine was issued, you intervened and rolled back the order for the convenience of the people,” he wrote to Shah.
“These decisions should be taken spontaneously. It is because the LG has not responded, I have written to Amit Shah-ji that his intervention is important as it is creating chaos,” Sisodia said.
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