According to the AIIMS director, there are 10-15 per cent of people who may witness severe infection and may need extra medicines like Remdesivir, oxygen or plasma. Less than five per cent of patients need to be operated on a ventilator, he informed.
The doctors treating SARS suspects or patients will use the Defence Research Development Organisation made Nuclear-Biological-Chemical weapon masks.
Around 12 per cent of the drugs sold in the open market across the country are "sub-standard" and over 0.5 per cent are "spurious," a senior official of Union health ministry said in Lucknow.
'We have the technical expertise, and international collaborations. We also have robust real-time data. We are a university of pandemic management. If the ministry neglects the role of NCDC, it is the loss of the country'
Besides opposing the suspension of three medicines, the sector has also questioned the process adopted by the government.
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