MYSURU: Growing concerns regarding the chance of kids contracting Covid-19 disease if and as soon as the next wave of the pandemic must attack, chairman of the Karnataka Commission for Protection of Child Rights has written into the state authorities seeking its intervention to accept pre-emptive measures for their own safety. The commissioner has requested the state government to establish dedicated healthcare centers for kids. Chairman of the commission Antony Sebastian has led into the forecasts of these specialists who fear that kids could bear the brunt through the next iteration of this pandemic. Another recommendations made with Sebastian in his correspondence to the secretary comprise constituting of a district-level job force to be led by the various deputy commissioners. He’s attracted the interest of this authorities to get enough capital in its disposal in order to make it to creep up health care infrastructure. Sebastian called on the authorities to think of a definitive strategy to guarantee the welfare of kids who’ve lost their parents to the outbreak. Pointing into the perils that lay in the route of those children, he’s requested the Karnataka government to stop their being manipulated as labourers. Additionally, he emphasized the need for government intervention to stop children from being trafficked, and also take cognisance of rising prevalence of child marriages. The commission chairman searched to stage the government’s focus on the actions adopted in neighbouring Maharashtra in healing kids infected with Covid-19. “The state administration is currently acting on our guidelines. District-level committees will be formed to rescue kids throughout the next wave of the outbreak,” Sebastian added.
Child rights body Attempts Karnataka govt’s intervention to protect Children from Covid-19 pandemic
