The blockade was both aimed at flattening the curve or more correctly, delaying the immediate spread of the COVID epidemic, and creating a physical care infrastructure. ”
The soft-spoken physician will continue with ICMR as national president, Dr. C G Pandit in Pune.
The story of India’s great efforts to combat the pandemic and its medical control will be complicated to write real-time reports from ICMR’s top leaders.
Dr. Gangakhedkar, member of cimR’s crisis control team.
In a heartfelt interview with Sheela Bhatt, Rediff.com’s lead collaborator, shortly after her retirement, Dr. Gangakhedekar, who is quarantined after traveling from Delhi to Pune, eloquently defends the measures taken to address the COVID-19 crisis. .
In January-February, we knew the crown was transmissible.
So we only had videos from China, few clinical publications available. We also saw how things were going in China, but then we didn’t know the intensity of the virus, which is so highly contagious.
There were videos of other people walking down the street and falling.
So we had no idea what was going on, what infectious disease we were dealing with. Then there’s fear.
Some videos would possibly be fake videos, but they have also scared scientists and laypeople.
Clearly, in China they used almost military curtains to make sure everyone went to the hospital, other people were locked in their homes. They felt that the rights of the citizens fit into secondaryArray..
Another dramatic thing we may not perceive during a time when, without drugs or preventive vaccines, Wuhan was suddenly declared covid-free.
There were provinces that had infectious germs, but this news also disappeared very quickly.
So we didn’t have many clues about what was going on in China, what works and what didn’t.
Maybe the lock works better …
But during his time in Iran, some Indians became angry during a pilgrimage. We knew what was going on, how the virus hit and when.
In Italy, we have noted concern about maximum transmissibility as a truth unknown until now.
But now, over an era, we have more clarity about this disease.
We implemented non-pharmacological interventions after the first article published in Lancet only in February, I think.
Until then, we knew so much about the non-pharmacological interventions in China that they had tried and their impact.
At first it’s scary to hear that China had built a 1,500-bed hospital in a week. But he also told us that we would want a lot of beds to hospitalize our people.
The only way to go to lock up and out to make sure we would have enough beds for people.
We knew that patients with maximum covid were going to ventilate at that time in China, so we had to develop our ability of extensive care sets to provide the right type of critical care through qualified physicians at all grades of physical care: tertiary, secondary, primary…
We heard that China had conducted a number of drug trials, so our expectations were high.
By the end of February, the number of patients was higher in China, so we thought all their clinical trials would be completed, but that didn’t happen.
In fact, most of his trials began last March and some in April. I think they were also overwhelmed, their scientists were fulfilling responsibilities, handling patients and doing other types of research, so they didn’t get the chance.
What’s more unexpected to us is that China didn’t have a lot of participants enrolled in those studies, as well as in rehearsals.
Unfortunately, in their clinical trials, the number of participants approaches a maximum of three hundred to 400.
Initially, when the observational studies arrived, there were only 60 to 100 patients enrolled in those studies.
The infection occurred almost a month later in India. We detected the first case at the end of January. It took us a while to isolate the virus.
And we arrived almost a month and a half late …
This period of time has had an effect on the progression of other tools, because unless you have a virus, it knows less about the virus.
Unless you know the genetic distribution of the virus, you can’t think about creating your own local diagnostic kits.
Once we’ve eliminated the virus, it’s a story!
Because you know, we had to have China or some other regions where they developed diagnostic kits because they had the virus and the sequence. Everyone in the world looking for the same diagnostic kits is a stalking experience.
It’s like we’re looking to do something and reliable diagnostic kits aren’t available.
I’m on the hard days.
China continued to have a high demand for diagnostic kits. Bringing them to India is hard.
Previously, their distributors agreed to supply kits, but at the time of delivery they ordered an extension.
Every week they would come and say, “Oh, I can’t deliver it now. There are too many mandates.
It took almost 2 to 3 weeks. I am not the right user to inform you about those delays because they were being treated differently.
It’s frustrating that they’ve provided us with a few thousand and maintained long-term promising dates.
And we at CIMR couldn’t communicate about it in public because other people would be demoralized.
But I think, somehow, the blockade gave us the opportunity to expand verification sites, we may simply provide more to people.
Although I still say that it’s hard to get kits, kits were never a genuine limitation because we controlled them efficiently.
At no time was our ability to test fully implemented and remains so today.
We can simply accentuate operations as planned.
Maybe that’s anything you ask when the crown pandemic ends, because it will create a more coherent story.
The isolation of the virus carried out through the ICMR-National Institute of Virology.
It is the only establishment capable because it had a BSL4 installation. Requires a biosecurity safe.
When you know it can be a high-risk pathogen, you want BSL4 or at least one BSL3 installation.
Since these other people were intelligent in isolation, we thought the only position we can do it in is in NIV, Pune.
Coronaviruses are difficult to isolate.
ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, ICMR NIV’s Allapuzha unit, ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, ICMR-National Institute for Malaria Research, New Delhi, ICMR-Regional Medical Research, Bhubaneswar, ICMR-National Institute for Cholera – Enter Diseasesic, Kolkata, ICMR-National Institute for Reproductive Health Research, Mumbai has played a role in addition to all other CCMR establishments extending the COVID-19 test.
The truth is, it’s a complicated time.
When other people can’t come to high schools because of the closure, there’s no public transportation to take them to high school.
India has the brains, we have the capabilities, but it was a situation.
It is the concept of the DG to bring scientists from the institutions. It worked well Array..
It’s not that if you’re a scientist, you may not be afraid to get this infection.
No, I don’t do the lockdown.
Even for clinical reasons, we do.
Think of blocking as an approach.
The overall total has been locked up.
At one time or another, the country entered a lockout because they made us think after seeing China’s reports.
When China opted for a blockade, it can almost prevent the spread of infection.
There’s a term – “flattening the curve” – that seemed very hot at the time.
At the same time, there is another style that claims that blocking is an opportunity to make sure your health care infrastructure is in place.
Shortly after the blockade is lifted, the number of cases would increase, so you have hospital facilities.
Blocking will be a long-term measure. Once you lift it up, you’ll want to put threat mitigation in position.
Therefore, the blockade was both aimed at flattening the curve or, more correctly, delaying the immediate spread of the COVID epidemic and creating a physical care infrastructure.
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