STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Assam Medical Service Association (AMSA) has opposed the government order regarding the 11 days of continuous duty for the health workers and has urged the government to withdraw the same. The association submitted a letter to the Health Minister opposing the decision and urged him for immediate withdrawal of the order.
In a missive submitted to the government, the Association said, "Continuous 11 days duty by the health workers in the Isolation wards of COVID-19 Positive patients will certainly increase the risk of COVID-19 infection to the on-duty health workers due to the long period of exposure. Naturally, the risks of infection will be much more in 11 days than the existing 7 days duty period.
"During these humid and hot summer days it will be too much painful, difficult, unbearable, exhausting and inhuman to force/compel of the health workers to do duties in COVID-19 isolation wards for a long period of uninterrupted 11 days wearing (8 hours/day) full PPE instead of the excising 7 days duty." The AMSA has termed three days of quarantine after 11 days of duty as unreasonable citing many grounds.