Gujarat to HC: Covid scenario grim, every day oxygen want 1,050 MT

The Gujarat authorities has knowledgeable the excessive court docket that the Covid-19 scenario within the state was “undeniably grim” and the demand for medical oxygen stood at 1,050 MT as of Monday morning. The oxygen demand was roughly 980 MT, as of April 16.
Government pleader Manisha Shah, nevertheless, assured the court docket, listening to a suo motu PIL on the pandemic, that the “state had sufficient oxygen”. The state’s manufacturing is 1,100 MT per day.
A division bench headed by Chief justice Vikram Nath directed the state authorities to include in its affidavit a standing report on the detailed break-up of testing requests and variety of assessments being carried out, by the following listening to on April 27.
The chief justice additionally highlighted that “RT-PCR tests are also not giving correct or accurate report of the infection and ultimately a CT scan report verifies that a patient is Covid- positive or not… still, RT-PCR is better than antigen tests”.

The state counsel clarified that for admission of a affected person, the state is counting on signs and never essentially a diagnostic check and “no patient is being turned away” on the premise of absence of check stories.
In an affidavit on April 19, Principal Health Secretary Jayanti Ravi had submitted that of the practically 24.70 lakh samples examined between April 1 and 18, about 39 per cent (9.70 lakh) have been RT-PCR.
The Indian Medical Association(IMA) that joined within the HC listening to by its Gujarat chapter president Dr Devendra Patel and secretary Dr Kamlesh Saini submitted that “more and more RT-PCR tests should be done” and testing services needs to be accessible in any respect taluka-level.
It additionally prompt that “actual and real figures of deaths of Covid-19 with comorbidities” needs to be put forth publicly. It additionally prompt that the federal government impose a whole lockdown for 14 days and if it was not attainable, implement “severe restrictions”.