Team Herald
MARGAO: With the government losing its grip, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said time has come for corporates to lend a helping hand in partnership with professionals who have retired from the medical establishment or are currently serving to create online guidance cells to help people fight coronavirus.
Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Elvis Gomes said, “Mismanagement in offering an appropriate COVID response had allowed the situation to go out of hand. The action of panchayats unilaterally declaring lockdown in their jurisdictions was a telling commentary that people had lost faith in the government’s ability to contain the spread.”
He said, “It was time for corporates in the State to step in as part of their CSR and tie up with units of medical professionals, who have retired or are still serving and can spare time so as to offer online help to people.”
“With the rising number of cases, Government infrastructure is insufficient to meet the need. Complacency in being a green zone and loose border control has put Goans in a situation where panic has set in. We have interacted with a few retired medical doctors and corporates who are willing to tie up and guide people. Government should appeal to more and more doctors, and paramedics to tie up with willing corporates and launch helpline numbers in various localities to tide over growing panic,” Gomes said.
