Give some comforts to the sick citizens
Posted on August 7th, 2021
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, , Dehiwela
Letter to the editor:
Give some comforts to the sick citizens
We hear and see the absolute destitute situation of the patients in the hospitals. Will it be too much to ask the government to think of alternative arrangements?
We see very sick people, mildly sick people, and even dead people mixed up in the wards and doctors/nurses seeing the patients while they are even on the floor. Meanwhile, we get umpteen calls about the inability to get the patients admitted even when they are PCR positive or are seriously sick.
Why not give a little comfort to the patients? All it needs is a little considerate thinking and planning.
1. Why not put up some tents in the compounds of the hospitals and mobilize some beds so that people who are not too serious, but need hospital care are kept there until they get better?
2. Why not convert some wedding halls or schools into wards and send the patients who need only supervision there with a skeleton staff with volunteers?
If we want, we can always find alternative avenues to make our people comfortable.
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Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, , Dehiwela