How the state's Covid response was hampered
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| | In the first week of May, as the number of novel coronavirus cases and deaths spiked in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat government did two things in quick succession: on May 6, it ordered all private clinics, hospitals and nursing homes in the city to reopen in 48 hours or lose their licenses.
The following day, May 7, the state government imposed a near-total lockdown in the city making it almost impossible for private hospitals and nursing homes to follow the order issued the previous day as public transport was not functional and there were restrictions on movements of people on foot or in personal vehicles.
As a consequence of this, the government ended up being in confrontation with private healthcare service providers at a time when it wanted them to share some of the load on public hospitals which have been filled with coronavirus patients as well as those seeking treatment for other ailments. |
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