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Covid: Doctors warn against ‘scaremongering’, advise caution -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph

Alertness among public and preparedness by healthcare institutions is always good, says Organised Medicine Academic Guild’s secretary-general

New Delhi: A body of medics has called on fellow doctors and government agencies to acknowledge India’s largely safe status against existing coronavirus variants and avoid “scaremongering” lest the public disregard caution if and when a “real wolf” arrives.

The Organised Medicine Academic Guild (Omag), a body of 15 professional medical associations with a collective membership of 250,000 doctors, issued a statement on Saturday saying “science, sanity, and the support of people should prevail over scaremongering”.

The guild’s statement came after multiple calls for caution and enhanced preparedness by the Centre over the past week and a media release from the Indian Medical Association, the country’s largest body of doctors, warning about “an impending Covid-19 wave”.

“The fag-end of 2022 has become a season of health advisories followed by opinions and predictions of a fourth Covid-19 wave,” Omag said in the statement. “With attempts at scaremongering, people go into panic mode....”

India’s seven-day average of daily new Covid-19 cases has remained below 300 over the past month. The Union health ministry on Saturday reported 226 new cases. The count of active Covid-19 patients nationwide was 3,653, up from 3,552 on Friday.

“Amid a pandemic, alertness among the public and preparedness by healthcare institutions is always good,” said Ishwar Gilada, a physician and infectious disease specialist in Mumbai who is Omag’s secretary-general.

“But a spate of calls for caution and forecasts of an impending wave carry the risk of public disregard if and when a real wolf arrives.”

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