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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | They’ve done nothing: Haryana’s Titoli village lashes out at state’s COVID-19 response -Prabhjit Singh

They’ve done nothing: Haryana’s Titoli village lashes out at state’s COVID-19 response -Prabhjit Singh

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published Published on May 26, 2021   modified Modified on May 29, 2021

-CaravanMagazine.in

On 27 April, the village of Titoli in Haryana’s Rohtak district witnessed at least nine cremations in a single day. On 5 May, the entire village, which has a population of 13,000, was declared a containment zone after local media reported that there had been 28 “mysterious” deaths in two days. Most of the dead had been suffering from fever, coughs and colds. But when a fellow reporter and I visited Titoli on 17 May, there was no sign of the village being a restricted zone, and the death toll had increased further. A list maintained by the village chowkidaar, or guard noted that there have been 58 deaths in the village between 25 April and 25 May. The only COVID-19 facility in the village, a day-care centre, was empty, and it had no equipment. The only staff member on duty, a doctor, had been appointed on 12 May, and he told me he was “here just to prescribe medicines.”

As I spoke to the residents, smoke billowed from a pyre at one of the three cremation grounds in the village and the dread was palpable. “There have been too many deaths. After so many deaths, there is absolute panic in the village,” Ashok Kumar, a 49-year-old, told me. But alongside the panic, there was grief, and immense anger towards the state government, the administration and private hospitals. All the residents I spoke to, including the village chief, said that neither the state government nor the local administration had done anything to help them. All of them complained of a lack of access to and shortage of beds, oxygen, medicines and critical care in public and private facilities. There was a marked distrust of government facilities. There were also widespread complaints of exploitation and over-charging by private hospitals and pharmacies—one of the families had paid Rs 25,000 for a vial of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir against the printed rate of Rs 3,400.   

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CaravanMagazine.in, 26 May, 2021, https://caravanmagazine.in/health/covid-titoli-haryana-government-deaths-hospitals


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