Mysore/Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar has urged the public to get themselves tested at the nearest Government or Private Hospitals if they have COVID-19 symptoms.
The symptoms of COVID-19 are running nose, headache, throat pain, dry cough, fever and difficulty in breathing.
If cases of SARI and ILI are found in patients visiting Private Hospitals, Poly Clinics or Clinics, such patients should compulsorily get themselves tested for COVID-19 at COVID Hospital on KRS Road, K.R. Hospital and Cheluvamba Hospital in city, Taluk Hospitals at T. Narasipur, Nanjangud, H.D. Kote, Hunsur, K.R. Nagar and Periyapatna, Community Health Centres at Saligrama, Hullahalli and Tagadur free of cost.
Those who give their throat swab for testing are advised to rest at home till the lab result is known and there is no enforced quarantine policy for such cases. If the lab report turns positive, such person will be isolated for treatment.
Stating that this step by the Health Department is to ensure that all symptomatic persons are tested, the DC has requested the public to co-operate and make use of the service to get themselves tested as soon as COVID-19 symptoms are seen.
If you allow home Quarantine, and do a free test, i think a lot more people will volunteer to come in, and you will effective Corona Control. Not sure if Mysore district administration can do anything about this. This should be a policy decision taken by the Central Government.
@Murali
Yes, these district administrators like the DC, simply follow what the minister instruct them to do. They have to follow minsters instructions to build their career.
You are right that there has to be a policy decision on how to handle such cases, at the level of your bearded supremo PM Modi. He would simply leave it to Yeddi, the RSS Cheddi CM.
In India, there is one rule for the rich and influential people like Deve Gowda, Suttur Seer – whose behind this DC was standing with a mask on and the Suttur Seer , being politically powerful did not need a mask , even when he was giving out foot packets. Deve Gowda and his powerful Gowda community congregated in Ramanagara for his relative’s marriage. The DC there was too terrified to impose the safe dstancing and group number rues. Even the High Court was terrified too, when it criticised the poor DC there.
India has not defeated the Virus. It is the myth spun by the BJP. The Virus has not peaked as yet in India, Hence, these cases spring up.
The picture in the article shows the fashion statement! The Corona virus gets scared to move in and out of mouth and nostrils as soon as it sees the mask hanging at the level of neck!
Sorry, some typos.
It appears that in India, the crowd of ‘hangers on’size, like the 8 person with and standing behind the DC, signifies, it appears the importance of the official in front. This case the DC. If it is a Divisional Commissioner, the DC’s boss, he with a dozen others will be in the ‘hangers on’ crowd’. If it is the minister, ‘the hangers on’crowd will be like 25!
While the politicians and others blame the British for everything, even 70+years after independence,, India, still has the structure of the administration set up during the British Raj: The DC and the Commissioner above him used to be English officers. The bureaucracy has become worse than what it was in the pre-independence days.
While the English commissioners had real power, there was no politician above them, these DCs, the IAS officers, young and well versed in paper pushing and obeying ministers, simply repeat what the minister orders them to do.
This DC a Keralite, can speak Kannada well? I guess not. Similarly, the IAS officers from Karnataka normally posted outside Karnataka, struggle to grapple with the local language, which is not Kannada. So these commissioners cannot speak to a common person in his or her own mother tongue!in the district they administer, That is the reason, so many local officials accompany him perhaps, just like in the case of the English commissioners before independence.
What has changed in India, in terms of administration? In Western democracies, such officials are elected so that they have to work with the local population, administering policies they can devise for the befit of their local population. If they go wrong, they lose in the next round of election. That makes them to listen to their local population.
Also, in India, it seems that it is almost mandatory for these officials to sport a well-groomed moustache! Only in Iraq , during Saddam Hussein regime, every official, even the TV presenters sported a groomed moustache , to please their great leader., Today, the Great Leader of India, is a bearded person. Should that be the fashion for officials?
Sir, this DC speaks kannada and there are several press briefings available on internet for the current situation. Your post is only about this local language fact and weaved around Mysore commissioner, would you be kind enough to retract on the statements. Let us use our freedom of speech towards betterment instead