Order Govt to increase COVID-19 testing: Ahmedabad Medical Association urges HC
The AMA application said the present rate of around 6,000 tests per day is not enough considering the population of Gujarat and the spread of the virus.;
Ahmedabad - The Ahmedabad Medical Association (AMA) has moved the Gujarat High Court seeking a direction to the state government to increase the testing for coronavirus in a big way.
Labs that can conduct coronavirus tests should be set up in every district, it demanded.
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The AMA has filed a civil application to be heard with a public interest litigation (PIL) about the handling of the coronavirus situation in the state, taken up by the court on its own.
The matter is likely to come up for hearing next week.
The AMA application said the present rate of around 6,000 tests per day is not enough considering the population of Gujarat and the spread of the virus.
Per day tests in Gujarat should be at least five times that of Delhi (which is conducting 23,000 tests per day) as per a directive of the Union Government, it said.
The Union government has asked the states to utilise all the existing COVID-19 testing labs to ramp up testing, and "inconsistency in implementing the national strategy of testing, tracing and isolation will inevitably lead to uncontrolled increase in cases and deaths," the association said.
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