The heart of resilient leadership: Responding to Covid-19, SDO shows his level of humanity while discharging his responsibility to a Covid patient  

I sent my vehicle for him and went personally to Shaktinagar Hospital. 102 ambulance was also arranged similarly by talking directly with Agency Supervisor who run and maintain ambulances.Test was done at around 7 : 15 a.m. , which came positive .  At that time, I received return calls from Dy CMOH - II, Superintendent and Nodal Doctor of Glocal. Patient was later admitted in Glocal at around 8 : 15 a.m. in my presence.

    Biswabrata Goswami

 

    Hummingbird News   

KRISHNAGAR, 30 SEP: At a time when miseries of common people are going to be compounded by dengue knocking our doors and many people raised fingers at the healthcare facilities for not providing health services especially to the ailing patients, a sub-divisional officer posted in Krishnagar, Nadia has shown his highest responsibility and humanity.

Manish Verma, SDO (Sadar) in Krishnagar is such a person who woke up in the morning after being called by an anonymous resident and heard his version carefully, took prompt action and admitted the caller’s father to a Covid hospital. He took barely two hours to complete his duty and responsibility. He even himself went to the Covid hospital and admitted the patient before discharging his ‘primary responsibility’.

Mr Verma, a senior most executive magistrate in the state, is a well-known officer to the Krishnagar residents for his prompt action especially during this pandemic crisis time. Amongst the officials in the district administration, Mr Verma has always continuously put forth his responsibilities in coping with the crisis.

International human rights law guarantees everyone the right to the highest attainable standard of health and obligates governments to take steps to prevent threats to public health and to provide medical care to those who need it. 

Human rights law also recognizes that in the context of serious public health threats and public emergencies threatening the life of the nation, restrictions on some rights can be justified when they have a legal basis, are strictly necessary, based on scientific evidence and neither arbitrary nor discriminatory in application, of limited duration, respectful of human dignity, subject to review, and proportionate to achieve the objective.

The scale and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic clearly rises to the level of a public health threat that could justify restrictions on certain rights, such as those that result from the imposition of quarantine or isolation limiting freedom of movement. 

At the same time, careful attention to human rights such as non-discrimination and human rights principles such as transparency and respect for human dignity can foster an effective response amidst the turmoil and disruption that inevitably results in times of crisis and limit the harms that can come from the imposition of overly broad measures that do not meet the above criteria.

Mr Verma has always played a pivotal role in maintaining human dignity while dealing with the Covid related works.

Mr Verma said, “Today at around 6 a.m., I  received a call from an unknown no. . Caller , one Shubhabrata Sarkar of Chashapara,  Ward No. 20   Krishnanagar informed me that his father Shyamlendu Sarkar , age 76 years and hyperglycemic ,  is having fever and respiratory distress since yesterday's night , which is unmanageable even by giving oxygen at home , and Oxygen saturation is fluctuating around 80 .

I took details of patient and sent those to Superintendent of Sadar Hospital as well as to Nodal Doctor of Glocal Hospital . I constantly rang them multiple times but of no avail. I later rang Dy CMIH - II also. Then, I myself contacted Medical Technologist, Tanmay and convinced him to come to Shaktinagar Hospital to do the RAT. I sent my vehicle for him and went personally to Shaktinagar Hospital. 102 ambulance was also arranged similarly by talking directly with Agency Supervisor who run and maintain ambulances.

Test was done at around 7 : 15 a.m. , which came positive .  At that time, I received return calls from Dy CMOH - II, Superintendent and Nodal Doctor of Glocal. Patient was later admitted in Glocal at around 8 : 15 a.m. in my presence.”