Vaccination trials for 12-15 age group kids, urgent attention to villages: Deve Gowda's suggestions to PM Modi

New Delhi, April 26: Janata Dal-Secular supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda has written a letter to PM Narendra Modi, ‘reiterating’ the suggestions regarding how to handle the current COVID-19 scenario.

 

 

In the letter, Deve Gowda has sought, inter alia, decentralisation of health administration and COVID-19 management, deadline on vaccination drive, focus on districts and taluk and not just cities, and vaccination trials for children within 12-15 age group.

 

He also suggested that "if the government decides to give vaccines free to all citizens, that would be a great humanitarian gesture.” Earlier the week, in a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Deve Gowda had pointed out that more people are getting infected in the second wave of the pandemic.

 

"With government and private hospitals struggling with the overload of patients, many of the affected are not able to get beds and medicines", he wrote in the letter. Gowda said that the government has to focus on supplying required facilities to hospitals, including oxygen and ventilators.

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