Excelsior Correspondent
VIJAYPUR, May 20: Provincial President Jammu Manjit Singh today said there was an unprecedented surge of COVID-19 cases and it has posed serious threat to the lives of people in the villages.
The situation is dangerous in rural areas and unnoticed deaths of COVID cases were on rise in absence of proper medical care from the Health Department, said Former Minister Manjit Singh in his statement to the press.
Manjit Singh said, “As the Health Department fails to reach out to the villagers, the people fear going to Government Hospitals as they are being told to get their COVID-19 test. Less awareness among the rural people has led to large numbers of deaths and increase in COVID-19 cases.”
“Many people prefer treatment at local level and they take medicines from the chemist shops on illness/symptoms instead of getting themselves COVID-19. This practice must be checked by the Drugs Department and medicine should be given by the chemists only after taking prescription of doctors from the customers with regard to the COVID positive patients to avoid its misuse,” added Manjit Singh.
He said that the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha should intervene and direct the Health Department to constitute teams and depute them in the rural belt to check the COVID spread.
“Poor people have no knowledge about the gravity of the situation because the Health Department and the administration have failed to work in coordination with each to reach out the rural population in the border and kandi areas,” he added.
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