Writes to Shah, L-G to scrap mandatory system for patients to visit Govt facility for clinical assessment
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal seeking rollback of new rule under which every Covid-19 positive patient has to visit quarantine centre for clinical assessment, said, “it is causing inconvenience to people.
“I have written a letter to the Hon'ble L-G requesting him to rethink about the new quarantine rules and bring back the earlier rules and urged L-G to restore the previous system of the check-up by the medical team visiting each patient’s home and to call an SDMA meeting,” Sisodia said.
Citing people’s grievances evolving suffering due to lack of understanding of new rules set by the centre pertaining to home isolation, Sisodia said people are in major confusion regarding the new Home Quarantine rules, adding,” L-G’s decision to first get a compulsory check-up of every Covid patient at quarantine centres has made people perplexed.”
Explaining further, he said that If a person chooses not to go to Covid centres for a check-up then police and administrations are harassing him or her, People are not anxious about the disease but for the inconvenience of waiting in queues outside the quarantine centres,” the Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) leader said,”This new rule is putting humungous pressure on the already overburdened ambulance services.”
Sisodia observed that the biggest problem the people are facing is that once they test positive for Covid-19, they have to get a check-up done at a Quarantine Centre, even in the absence of any symptoms.
“If a person chooses not to go to the centre, then he is harassed by repeated phone calls from the police or the administration prodding him to visit a nearby quarantine centre and get a check-up done. People are in a state of fear that if they refuse to go to a quarantine centre, then the police would come to their place and take them there,” said Sisodia.
It may be recalled, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal initially had passed an order scrapping home isolation but a day after he rolled it back after AAP leader raised concern in the DDMA meeting.
“This new rule is putting humungous pressure on the already overburdened ambulance services,” said Sisodia.
