5. Coronavirus has been a menace. Despite this fact, you find that a few medical staff in some of
the government hospitals in the city have been trying to take advantage in certain unfair ways.
Write a letter in about 120 words to the Editor of "The Times of India' with an intention to
create an awareness among the people.
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Hospitals reported shortages of no-touch, infrared thermometers needed for temperature screening. One hospital reported an inability to implement a policy to screen all hospital entrants because it did not have enough no-touch thermometers to allow for timely testing and avoid long lines at entrances. (No-touch thermometers use infrared technology to rapidly provide accurate temperature results.) This hospital reported it resorted to only screening patients, staff, and vendors on a random basis. Similarly, another hospital explained that it was unable to monitor employee temperatures in a timely manner, given it had a 700-plus person staff and had just a few of the no-touch thermometers that could be devoted to staff testing rather than patient care. Hospitals faced shortages of disinfectants and cleaning supplies. Hospitals reported insufficient inventory of essential cleaning supplies, such as disinfectant wipes, hand sanitizer, and hand soap. One hospital described being unable to buy disinfectant cleaning supplies and not knowing when supplies will be available. Another hospital described making disinfectants, such as bleach, out of on-hand chemicals, such as chlorine. Isolated or smaller hospitals reported that they have a harder time accessing necessary supplies. Isolated and smaller hospitals reported that they were facing special challenges maintaining the supplies they need to continue their operations. One hospital noted that its island location made it difficult to restock quickly when it runs out of supplies. Another hospital reported that it was not able to request the amounts of disinfectants and other supplies that it needed from the State. Instead, products were “divvied up” by the State, and because the hospital is small, it received fewer of the products and supplies than larger hospitals. Hospitals cited anticipated shortages of ventilators as a potential challenge Many hospitals reported concerns that they would not have enough ventilators if faced with a surge of COVID-19 patients. One administrator explained the difficulty of predicting whether a surge would come and how many ventilators would be needed, “[We] just don’t know two weeks down the road what we will need.” Hospitals pointed to overall supply shortages and the unavailability of ventilators in other facilities, as well as the scarcity of ventilator components such as tubes. Some hospitals’ concerns about the supply of ventilators were exacerbated by their small size. Small hospitals reported that they were able to maintain few, if any, ventilators. Some of these hospitals described contingency plans to repurpose alternative machines from other hospital