Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has hit back at Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte’s remarks on discharge of patients without testing and also on low testing ratio, saying the MLA must fact check before going public and creating panic.
“With reference to the claim of MLA of Porvorim Rohan Khaunte’s stating that 500 people are being discharged today from COVID Hospital, I would like to clarify that total discharges today are 59, from the COVID Hospital and the COVID Care Centres,” he said.
He said that the discharge process for all States has been stipulated as per the directions of the SC dated June 19, 2020, wherein all States have been directed to uniformly follow the revised discharge policy issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (MoHFW) dated May 8, 2020.
“Further, the Union Health Secretary had issued directions dated 29th June that the same discharge policy should be implemented in letter and spirit by all States. I am pleased to inform you that Goa’s testing rate is perhaps the highest amongst all States in the country at over 60000 per million population. It is my humble appeal to MLA to kindly fact check the data before making the same public and create panic,” he said.
Further, he added that everyone is together in this fight and the only way to defeat Covid19 is to stay united and overcome the crisis by helping each other & being responsible.