Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said the state may face a shortage of healthcare infrastructure shortage soon if the present “alarming situation” on coronavirus cases continued.
Addressing people of the state on social media, Thackeray also said stricter curbs will be imposed in one or two days to check the surge in COVID-19 cases.
“Till now, we have administered 65 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses, including three lakh vaccine doses yesterday,” he said.
Some people are getting infected even after vaccination because they stop wearing masks,” Thackeray said.
“I cannot rule out imposing a lockdown if the current situation prevails,” he said. People have become complacent, he added.
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In hind sight it is obvious that when the numbers went down after the last spike, it would have been prudent to keep the, created infrastructure functioning and even enhanced. Possibly the view taken to save money by closing it or down grading it. Once this spike comes under control hopefully the lesson will be learnt and facilities maintained for a year or more or even converted to permanent establishments which we need.
Considerable number of medical graduates are coming with degrees from foreign universities who are all eligible to work in those respective countries, why compel them idle while they to go through the Indian exams? Put them to use , they will gain experience and the load on the front line worriers will be reduced.
All these doctors with foreign degrees can be used under the supervision of the locally qualified doctors, they are better than no doctors and surely the available number will be 100s if not 1000s.
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