Is Your Motto ‘Make Green Zones Into Red Zones’?

A concerned citizen of Wokha speaking on behalf of all the districts.
A questionable decision by the Government of Nagaland. GON decided to transport positive case patients to respective districts. While the whole world is trying to contain the spread of the Novel CoronaVirus with measures like lockdown and imposing ban on flights and other means of travel, the GON has decided to make Covid- 19 patients travel putting the lives of many at risk.

While it is agreeable that the facilities in Kohima and Dimapur have chances of being overwhelmed there is a greater problem in transferring the infected.

Apart from the three districts with positive cases, other districts are free of any positive cases at the moment but the decision of government directly implies that all districts should have their own positive cases.

It’s just astounding just to think that someone even has the audicity to come up with such an idea.

If cases are to be locally confirmed positive at the respective districts then the patients will be automatically admitted at the respective district hospitals. But we cannot have patients traveling from one district to another greatly increasing the chances of infection.

Transferring of Covid-19 patients also endangers the lives of the frontline workers i.e., the ambulance drivers, medical practitioners and frontline.
While the whole world is trying to maintain Green Zones through containment by means of travel restrictions, GON wants to spread the disease by allowing the patient to travel. No matter how safe the government says that they will ensure protocols while transferring the patient one can never guarantee because we are fighting against an unseen enemy.

The authorities also asserted that the case of transferring a positive case patients ‘was not negligence’ but was caused because of ‘communication gap’. Wasn’t the communication gap caused because of negligence in the first place. Get your statement right GON. Admit your mistakes, take the higher road and implement better measures.

It is also my speculation that GON is trying to cover up a mistake with another bad decision. Is it because they want a leeway and say that they are doing the same for ever district i.e., sending the positive cases to their respective districts because they somehow managed to transfer one to Tuensang?

It’s not the case where the districts are not willing to accept returnees so don’t get this wrong. But isn’t containing cases to a smaller area as much as possible to prevent the spread of virus the whole idea? Keeping the curve straight.

By the time the patients reached their respective districts there are chances the ambulance driver and the attendants will be already infected. Then after putting them in districts hospital increase the chances of infecting the healthcare workers who were otherwise free of any cases.

Their current decision defeats the whole purpose of their last directive.
If you are sending even the positive cases then why take the trouble of testing every returnees in Kohima. Wasn’t the whole point of doing that was to isolate the Covid-19 patients?

It’s okay to send returnees to their respective districts after screening for quarantine but it’s definitely not okay to allow a Covid-19 patient to travel there by increasing the circle of infection.

Don’t try to solve a problem with another problem. Is your motto ‘Make Green Zones into Red Zones’?

Senthungo M Ovung