The numbers are rising in the state. Since we are not testing, we don’t know which stage we are in. When we accelerate our testing, we will come to know. We have been writing to the Centre since March 21 that we need more PPEs (Personal Protective Equipments), ventilators, testing kits, masks and PCR machines. The medical equipment has to come from the central government. We also don’t have enough thermal scanners. Though we asked for 300 thermal scanners, we got only 100 scanners, that too, only three days ago. We should have thermal scanners in police stations, government offices and at least one in every panchayat... We demanded 75,000 PPE kits and we got 5000. Even testing kits, we got very little. How will we do more testing when we don’t have enough machines? We have only 8 PCR machines. Only four of them are operational now. The rest, we are waiting for ICMR approval. Our main concern is about medical equipment. We want to do rapid tests also... But we don’t even have a single kit yet. If we don’t act now, we will face the consequences in the coming months. Even in Mumbai, hospitals are shut and doctors are being infected. But a poor state like us will have to pay a huge price if we are not medically prepared.