Goemkarponn desk
VASCO: Goenchea Raponkarancho Ekvott’ General Secretary, Olencio Simoes lambasted the state government for failure to control Covid-19 positivity rate and death rate in Goa, as every person including the fishing community is getting declared as positive.
GRE has demanded that the Chief Minister Dr.Pramod Sawant should declare the “State of Emergency” under article 360(1) or 356 similar to other countries like Romania, Czech Republic ,Ethiopia, Spain, Italy, US etc, who had declared State of Emergency inorder to stop Covid surge last year.
“The Directorate of Health Services has completely collapsed and the state administration and leadership have failed to control the pandemic. The consequence of the Government’s negligence, mismanagement and error of judgement has made our Goans bear the brunt of it,” he said.
Olencio stated that “State of Emergency” is a need of the hour as we need to totally curb the Covid spread as we are losing our near and dear ones.
“It is sad that even after the Covid cases and death rate per million were highest last year in India, still the Goa government did not act quickly despite the forewarnings but were rather busy approving all Central disastrous projects which the people have been opposing since several years,” he said.
Olencio has demanded that more Covid centers should be constructed or operationalized and oxygen supply needs to be pumped up.
“Patients under home isolation should be under the strict watchful eye as many patients are roaming freely thus violating Covid related protocols. Caretakers of Covid patients in the hospitals are freely roaming around which is further aggravating the Covid situation,” he says.
Therefore, the state government should convert all hotels under disaster management act 2005 to Covid centers to provide better treatment facilities to Covid patients so that we can minimize the death rate as we have already lost 1937 lives.
