Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 3: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the management of non-COVID emergencies is very important amid the Covid-19 crisis.
It said that we should not lose non covid patients while getting prepared for uncertain covid-19 pandemic.
“It is our moral and professional responsibility to manage both Covid-19 and non Covid-19 emergencies by adopting to parallel system of health care delivery as guided by ICMR and Health and family welfare department GoI,” a statement issued here said.
President DAK Dr Suhail Naik said that observing the pandemic of covid-19 closely we have observed that our 90 percent of patients are asymptomatic, mortality rate is less than 1 percent and test positive rate is 3 percent and recovery rate is more than 25 percent.
“Keeping these statistical parameters in perspective it seems we are epidemiologically safe but are losing patients to non – Covid-19 emergencies and that is very unfortunate and unacceptable,” he said.
While expressing grief over two maternal deaths in Anantnag Dr Naik said that our response to crisis should be elaborative, calibrated and dynamic.
Dr Owais H Dar, General Secretary, DAK further said that in preparedness to Covid-19 pandemic people must understand that health infrastructure of UT JK is classified in to Covid-19 and non Covid-19 faculties along with appropriate distribution of human resources.
DAK appealed the entire ground level workforce to trace and identify all pregnant ladies for line listing, so that any pregnant lady who is near to term could be tested for Covid-19 status to frame further course of management.
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