Local People In Kerala’s Poonthura Assault Healthcare Staff

Local people in Kerala’s Poonthura assault and spit at healthcare workers who had gone there to gather swab tests for Covid-19. Group of healthcare workers, including a doctor, who had gone to gather swab tests from the neighborhood individuals at the close by the fishing village of Poonthura, where a few COVID-19 positive cases have been accounted for, were purportedly undermined by certain local people on Friday.

The group had gone in a vehicle and were constrained by the upsetting nearby individuals to bring down the vehicle window and they purportedly spat on those inside the vehicle, sources from the Indian Clinical Association(IMA) said. All the four healthcare workers have been approached to go into isolate, IMA sources told media

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister KK Shailaja, have censured the assault on the healthcare workers. Accusing the opposition groups, Vijayan said “Our healthcare workers are in the front line intentionally realizing that they can get influenced whenever and are battling the spread of the pandemic. They were kept from entering the spot. A few people are causing local people to do likewise. We can see the hands of the opposition groups behind this,” he told correspondents.

Portraying the occurrence as “generally appalling”, Shailaja said the healthcare workers are overlooking the danger to their own lives and attempting to support the individuals. The IMA has communicated its “solid dissent” against this trouble making towards the healthcare workers.

“When healthcare workers are taking a chance with their lives to help other people to hold over the COVID-19 circumstance, it is deplorable such an episode has happened,” the affiliation said. Many people had come out of their homes at Poonthura today fighting that they were confronting disengagement from different quarters because of media investigates a rising number of constructive cases from the zone.

The nonconformists, a significant number of whom would not wear veils, asserted that there had been cases when specialists of specific emergency clinics had wouldn’t treat them and they were approached to remain away. It was as of now that the vehicle conveying the healthcare workers arrived at the zone to gather the swab tests.

Poonthura has seen the too spread of the infection as an angler is said to have tainted numerous others in the fishing town. Vijayan accused an adolescent Congress worker of the episode saying he had battled through WhatsApp to bring out individuals on to the avenues to dissent by spreading counterfeit news.

In the regulation zone at Poonthura, at any rate, 31,985 individuals are living and the health proportions of the state government were “disrupted” by certain individuals spreading counterfeit news.

“Lamentably, UDF leaders are at the bleeding edge of this. An adolescent Congress pioneer crusaded through WhatsApp, against the antigen tests saying the test was pointless and would spread the infection. He additionally guaranteed that the test was simply to make dread among the individuals and because of hostility towards Poonthura locals,” Vijayan said.

The harsh move will be made against the individuals who spread such phony messages and cause a break among the individuals and power them to rampage, he said. Thiruvananthapuram recorded 129 cases, the most noteworthy number for the second back to back day on Friday out of which 122 individuals have been tainted through contact, and a greater part of them are from Poonthura.

Commandos and 500 police staff have been deputed in Poonthura to carefully authorize the lockdown there.

As reports rose that local people had fought at Poonthura, health minister Shailaja spoke to the individuals to help out the state organization to forestall the spread of the contamination. “Individuals’ participation is required. The entire world thinks about this pandemic. The infection is spreading quick and demise cases are expanding over the world.

Why are individuals not seeing this and understanding the gravity of the circumstance? Kerala has a lesser number of cases contrasted with different states, due to the compelling the preventive instrument received throughout the previous half-year.

On the off chance that somebody is attempting to undermine all the measures taken by the wellbeing division, we will lose control of the circumstance,” she said. The minister additionally censured the fights being propelled during the pandemic and needed to know why all the pioneers, who know about the emergency, were quiet.

“Fights can be held, however following the COVID-19 health convention,” she said. Bringing up that there are more than 5,500 matured people in only three wards of Poonthura region and at any rate 2,250 kids under 5 years, she said there was only one approach to contain the spread there and that is proclaiming lockdown, and confining travel.