Lucknow: After resident doctors of SGPGIMS, employees of KGMU and doctors and medical staff of RMLIMS have also registered strong protest against new rules on ward-service period in Covid-19 wards and quarantine thereafter released by the govt . Doctors’ contention is that the change of norms will expose their relations and non-covid patients to infection risk and take toll on their mental and physical health.
While SGPGI Resident Doctors Association (RDA) members will wear black ribbons at work from Saturday, RMLIMS nurses have announced to remain ‘quarantined’ at institute’s hospital, rather than going home. Earlier, doctors had to serve for seven days in Covid-19 wards, during which period that they had to remain in isolation at accommodation provided by the administration. After being relieved from duty, albeit tested negative for infection, they were kept in 14-days passive-quarantine within the same facility with no contact with the surface world.
Now, medical personnel will need to perform 14-day duty. During this era , she/he are going to be active-quarantined rather than going home, occupy a facility arranged by administration and add hospital. After service period is over, she/he are going to be home-quarantined for 2 days, if tested negative and resume add non-Covid wards from Day 17. Only those are going to be passive-quarantined who are directly exposed to risk like breach in PPE kit.
The frontline workers of three premier institutes cited two reasons for opposing the new rules.
One, working in PPE kits for long hours is physically taxing because it generates heat, hence 14-day duty at a stretch in Covid-19 ward are going to be exhaustive both mentally and physically, they said.
Two, since time period of virus is 5-14 days, scientifically a personnel should be passive-quarantined for 2 weeks to make certain that she/he has not acquired infection during the service period and doesn't pose risk to anybody on resuming normal life. However, as per new rules, if a worker is shipped home after service period and resumes duty in non-covid wards two days after, it'll put both her/his relations including elderly and youngsters also as non-covid patients in danger , they added.
Directors of SGPGI and RMLIMS sought a day’s time from their respective resident doctors to talk to the govt .
SGPGI RDA general secretary Dr Anil Gangwar said “Since we got no communication till late evening, we'll wear black bands to figure from Saturday.” RML Nursing Association president Amit Sharma said “We will stay in hospital and no head home , if demand isn't met.”
KGMU employees’ association president Pradeep Gangwar said they too will protest if rules are imposed.
While SGPGI Resident Doctors Association (RDA) members will wear black ribbons at work from Saturday, RMLIMS nurses have announced to remain ‘quarantined’ at institute’s hospital, rather than going home. Earlier, doctors had to serve for seven days in Covid-19 wards, during which period that they had to remain in isolation at accommodation provided by the administration. After being relieved from duty, albeit tested negative for infection, they were kept in 14-days passive-quarantine within the same facility with no contact with the surface world.
Now, medical personnel will need to perform 14-day duty. During this era , she/he are going to be active-quarantined rather than going home, occupy a facility arranged by administration and add hospital. After service period is over, she/he are going to be home-quarantined for 2 days, if tested negative and resume add non-Covid wards from Day 17. Only those are going to be passive-quarantined who are directly exposed to risk like breach in PPE kit.
The frontline workers of three premier institutes cited two reasons for opposing the new rules.
One, working in PPE kits for long hours is physically taxing because it generates heat, hence 14-day duty at a stretch in Covid-19 ward are going to be exhaustive both mentally and physically, they said.
Two, since time period of virus is 5-14 days, scientifically a personnel should be passive-quarantined for 2 weeks to make certain that she/he has not acquired infection during the service period and doesn't pose risk to anybody on resuming normal life. However, as per new rules, if a worker is shipped home after service period and resumes duty in non-covid wards two days after, it'll put both her/his relations including elderly and youngsters also as non-covid patients in danger , they added.
Directors of SGPGI and RMLIMS sought a day’s time from their respective resident doctors to talk to the govt .
SGPGI RDA general secretary Dr Anil Gangwar said “Since we got no communication till late evening, we'll wear black bands to figure from Saturday.” RML Nursing Association president Amit Sharma said “We will stay in hospital and no head home , if demand isn't met.”
KGMU employees’ association president Pradeep Gangwar said they too will protest if rules are imposed.
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