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Firstly , there is a very proud moment for all the citizen for Dr. Harsh Vardhan recently taking the chair of chirperson of WHO executive board .In a plea seeking the accomodaation and quarantine facility for health worker invlve in the treating the covid-19 infected person ,the union ministry of health and welfare has told the supreme court that the health care workers themselves are responsible to protect themselves from the infection .The statement was made while replying to a plea questioning the Centre's new guidelines for frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers by which it has ended the 14-day mandatory quarantine for them.The Ministry of Health has submitted that it is ultimately the healthcare workers who need to protect themselves from exposure to infections by training themselves and taking all precautions to prevent infection.The Centre has further stated that the Petitioner has given no "empirical evidence" suggesting doctors were testing positive for COVID-19 in spite of wearing PPE and that the conclusions drawn were merely a "hypothesis".The plea filed by a doctor through Advocate Mithu Jain questions the Centre's new Standard Operating Procedure for front line COVID-19 healthcare workers, by which it has ended the 14-day mandatory quarantine for them.The plea filed by a doctor through Advocate Mithu Jain questions the Centre's new Standard Operating Procedure for front line COVID-19 healthcare workers, by which it has ended the 14-day mandatory quarantine for them.On May 29, a Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, SK Kaul and MR Shah took the affidavit filed by the doctor in her pending petition on record and gave Solicitor General Tushar Mehta time to file the Centre's reply by the following week.The plea by the doctor initially demanded separate residential facilities for frontline healthcare workers dealing with COVID19 so that they could be accommodated closer to hospitals."While the Hospital Infection Control Committee in the health facility is responsible for implementing the Infection Prevention and Control activities, but the final responsibility lies with healthcare workers. It is their responsibility to train themselves and take all measures in preventing the infection."
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