Currently, there is a decrease in the number of cases reported due to the reduction in the number of PCR tests performed to identify patients. Even though we thought that the decrease in the number of tests was a decrease in the number of patients, there is no scientific basis for that story and there is no reason for a decrease in the number of patients in our country. Because some people are trying to say that this is because they are being vaccinated. In fact, the covishield vaccine makes it very clear that even someone who has been vaccinated and received a second dose is more likely to develop covid. This vaccine does not stop the risk of infection, but stops the chances of an infected person getting the disease. Then, as a group that has only just received the first dose, there is no way to report a reduction in the likelihood of contracting Covid and spreading the Covid vaccine.
In order to take full advantage of the Covid vaccine, we need to carry out the immunization process while our surveillance and research process is very successful. Only then will immunity develop within this community as a whole in our country and a hard immunity situation will emerge that will protect the person who does not have immunity. If we try to build a hard immunity by piercing one to two, it will never be separate. This surveillance process, the testing process, the immunization process, all three go at the same pace, and in another six to seven months a system of survival with a certain controlled condition develops. Or, like in India, this is going to ripple again and again. To prevent this, the Epidemiology Unit should not do the dog’s job as it is currently doing. We have a large network of hospitals as well as a system of health institutions to strengthen the vaccination process. We are a country that has had successful vaccinations in history. But all of this was messed up by the methodology of the Covid vaccine.
There is a big crisis regarding the current status and mechanism of hospitals and the allocation to hospitals. Not only drugs but if we talk about PCR tests we will not get a reaction on time. If we want to run a laboratory 24 hours a day, we have not been able to pay the normal overtime allowance. When the hospital directors ask for a grant, they use one person to run the laboratory 24 hours a day and ask for more time to do so. Due to the problem of these provisions, a number of shortages have arisen in the health sector. These shortages are, in general, reasonable shortages. Eighty percent of the deficiencies are due to management weaknesses. Every opportunity we have to make money, every opportunity to save money without wasting it, has been handed over to a few businessmen. For example, it is possible to maintain the Bandaranaike International Airport entirely at no government expense. Because we do PCR of tourists and foreign workers at a cost of over fifty dollars. One person usually does about four PCR tests. So all this has been given to the private sector. So we are doing various tests and maintaining a laboratory. Even with the introduction of instant antibody test kits, it was considered a business process. If it was brought at the right time it could have generated income. The big business is fighting hard for the immunization vaccine. We believe the vaccine is still registered. There is a buffet-like situation in the world about this isolated vaccination. The public chooses their vaccine from that buffet. But only covidshield vaccine is still registered in our country. We believe that these are business interests. We ask the government to say no if there is no money. This means that the public sector should not be allowed to do these things for the benefit of the business community, but should stop wasting money and send them to the private sector where they can earn a living.