There is a saying in north Bihar villages that roughly translates into something like this: “the room is dark and filled with snakes of all varieties.” This is how an elderly person from the state and currently “stranded” in Delhi summed up the coronavirus situation in the country. To understand the dark room filled with snakes, the government has imposed a national lockdown, the elderly person explained.
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The whole country is that one dark room and every single person is a snake because no one knows who is carrying the novel coronavirus and not showing symptoms. That person may bite (infect) a healthy person.
The challenge is that somebody has to enter the room, and sanitise it by taking out the snake. Doctors and nurses are the frontline warriors in this fight against novel coronavirus outbreak in India. The problem is many of them are getting exposed to the novel coronavirus.
In an earlier article, Indiatoday.in explored why losing doctors and other health professionals to novel coronavirus through quarantine or isolation might seriously hamper India’s fight against Covid-19.
The situation has worsened in terms of availability of the pool of health professions since then. Some of the hospitals have turned into potential coronavirus clusters and declared coronavirus containment zones.
A cancer hospital of the Delhi government has been shut down after four health professionals including a doctor tested positive for novel coronavirus. The OPD has been closed and around 45 cancer patients are being shifted to a private hospital. Cancer patients are more at fatality risk in novel coronavirus infection.
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