Saturday, 22 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
About 50 residents of Uttarakhand from different fields have written to chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat demanding an Empowered Expert Medical Advisory Panel (EEMAP) to help the State fight the worsening situation of Covid-19. The letter states that this panel could analyse best practices across India and the world to suggest suitable measurs for implementation directly to the chief minister.
Educationist and senior chartered accountant Anurag Sangal said that a five-member delegation met the CM on Friday to submit the memorandum and discuss the issue with him. This letter signed by homemakers, teachers, businesspersons, industrialists, lawyers, chartered accountants and retired public servants among others states that the best efforts of the State government as a physical administrative response has not sufficed to control the spread of Covid-19. The signatories clarified that Covid has actually demonstrated itself to be a ferocious flu that needs a strategic medical response to curb the active surge of the multiple virus variants and mutations spreading around and prepare the State for the probable third wave when young generations, especially children may be affected, more so in the villages and towns in the mountains that need a focused approach.
The letter emphasises that in other States, this strategic response is being developed by empowered panels of eminent medical experts and scientists with a mandate to suggest ways and it is important that Uttarakhand too sets up an EEMAP to analyse best practices across India and the globe and suggest suitable measures for implementation in Uttarakhand to the CM.
The letter states that these 50 proactive citizens have reached out to a number of medical experts across India. Among others, those who have consented to spare their time and share their talent and experience for the benefit of Uttarakhand are Dr Mathew Varghese, Public Health Expert, St Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi; Padma Shri recipient Dr Praveen Chandra, Cardiologist, Medanta, Gurugram; Prof Manoj Gupta, Dean of Academics, AIIMS, Rishikesh; Dr L M Upreti, Public Health Practitioner, Almora; Dr Mahesh Kuriyal, Neurosurgeon, CMI, Dehradun and Dr Puneet Tyagi, Respiratory Medicine, Max, Dehradun.
The signatories have requested the CM to contact these experts directly at the earliest and if so required, have offered to connect each one of them to his office so that the benefits of this exercise can begin to flow immediately.The signatories to this memorandum include Ajay Goyal, Ambuj Oberai, Amit Jain, Anil Agarwal, Anoop Nautiyal, Anuradha Sangal, Anurag Sangal, Ashish Garg, Ashwini Mishra, Atul Singhal, Bharat Sharma, Digvijay Agarwal, Dilip Singh, Gulshan Khurana, Harish Virmani, Hemant Koorich, Jai Raj, Kanchan Seth, Kavita Ohri, Lokesh Ohri, Madhu Wahi, Madhukar Dhiman, Manoj Sharma, Minakshi Gandotra, Monika Nagalia, Pankaj Gupta, Pravin Chandok, Rakesh Oberai, Rajiv Berry, Randhir Arora and Vipin Nagalia among others.
