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Sisodia writes to Amit Shah, LG, says don’t call every Covid +ve patient to quarantine centre
Sisodia, in his letter, has asked LG Baijal to withdraw the order and also said that the national capital is witnessing nearly 3,000 Covid-19 cases every day.
Citing inconvenience caused to people, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah and LG Anil Baijal seeking rollback of new rule under which every coronavirus disease positive patient has to visit quarantine centre for clinical assessment.
Seeking reinstatement of previous modus operandi wherein teams of the district administration visit the house of a person who has been infected by Sars-Cov-2 to carry out a clinical assessment. The new method which involves every patient to visit quarantine centre, including the mild and asymptomatic cases as well, will add pressure on an already strained government machinery.
Sisodia, in his letter, has asked LG Baijal to withdraw the order and also said that the national capital is witnessing nearly 3,000 Covid-19 cases every day and that it not feasible for every patient to undergo clinical assessment at government-run centres. He also said that if a virus infected patient waits for her turn in long queue at such centres, there may be a possibility of spreading the virus.
Earlier in an online briefing, the deputy chief minister had asked, “Why should one go to quarantine centre for checkup? Has he made any mistake? At a time when the government should help him, we are giving him punishment of standing in long queues.”
Sisodia has also asked lieutenant governor to call a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority and revert to the old system, which was made mandatory through an order last week. The order makes it mandatory for every fresh Covid-19 patient to visit a care centre for a thorough clinical assessment to ascertain whether the patient would need hospitalisation or home isolation.
