50 lakh meant for PPE redirected to PM-CARES fund, allege AIIMS resident doctors
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Association also says accommodation was not being arranged for doctorsThe All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) has alleged that the administration and corporate social responsibility (CSR) section had redirected ₹50 lakh from Bharat Dynamics under the Ministry of Defence to PM-CARES fund rather than the originally assigned purpose of buying personal protection equipment (PPE).
The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund, a public charitable trust, was set up in response to the emerging requirement for resources to defeat the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Association added that the hostel superintendent was not able to arrange accommodation despite instructions to cut travel time for doctors.
“We met with the administration on Wednesday and told them about our concerns and requested that all personal protection equipment will have to meet the safety standards prescribed by the Health Ministry and that neither doctors nor other patients should be put at risk of catching the infection. “Jugaad” PPE will not work,” said AIIMS RDA general secretary T. Srinivas Rajkumar on Thursday.
He said the funds being re-directed was a serious issue.
The RDA has also noted that the hostel superintendent was reluctant to arrange for accommodation despite repeated instructions by the AIIMS administration to make the stay comfortable for residents travelling from far every day.
Meanwhile, the AIIMS RDA has also written to the Central government about the recent assault on doctors treating a COVID-19 patient at the Gandhi Hospital, Hyderabad.
“It is extremely disheartening to know that such events continue unabated even when this country is going through this massive pandemic. Such actions would destroy the morale of frontline healthcare workers deployed in such testing situation,” said the AIIMS RDA in its letter.
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Bhakts neither have brains nor they listen.
They only follow orders, no matter what happens to humanity.
I hope your dad and sis have made their own arrangements. No one can depend on anyone in our country. Safety first, treatment later.
Doctors are getting Jugaad PPE everywhere : Raincoats and Low quality masks with N95 written on them
It won’t happen until mass deaths occur.
Only this will make the people to force the government to look out and improve healthcare system.
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Update: A resident doctor of AIIMS who was tested positive for COVID19 earlier today, his 9 months pregnant wife (a doctor posted at Emergency) has also been tested positive. She has been isolated and her delivery will take place at AIIMS.
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“Bloody anti-national doctors, playing politics in this national emergency. Where were they and their PPEs for the last 70 years ? Why are they crying now ? 70 saal ka kachra 1 saal me thori saaf ho jayega, time to lagega. At least, Honorable PM Shri Modi ji CARES. What more do they want? Why are they always blaming the government, why cant they go out and purchase their own PPEs?”
Believe me, many here would be feeling all this word by word. Poor souls, cant express themselves freely.
Haha. That was sarcasm. That was for bhakts. I am on your side only.
And this is what happened to PPEs: https://www.thequint.com/news/india/coronavirus...
To Bhakts : It has been 9 days since lockdown, Where is the PPE for doctors?
Are we done sending PPE to Maldives and Serbia for PR points?
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-sends-cov...
https://twitter.com/UNDPSerbia/status/124427212...