-The Telegraph 'The way the clustering of cases is on the rise in hospitals — which has led to the closure of 20 hospitals so far — it may lead to more closures' As a gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist, my speciality and commitment to my profession amid the current public health disaster because of Covid-19 demands that I stretch myself in whatever possible way to care for the SICk who need healthcare,...
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Coronavirus Pandemic: AIIMS Delhi Doctors Sound Alarm Bells Against Govt Apathy -Jeevan Prakash Sharma
-Outlook India Doctors blame the government for failing to provide baSIC facilities and services to healthcare professionals who are at the forefront to deal with cases of Coronavirus. The Coronavirus infection is increasingly spreading among healthcare professionals and forcing them to go in quarantine. This has led to a shortage of doctors in many top hospitals in the country. It is also discouraging many others to lead from the front as they...
More »‘Who will write about us if we fall SICk?’: The vulnerability of journalists during times of Covid-19 -Shweta Desai
-Newslaundry.com Media employees are under pressure on the frontlines, often without protective gear or enough support from their employers. As cases of the novel coronavirus began appearing in Dharavi — where some 8.5 lakh people reside on a patch of land measuring 2.4 sq km — news channels and photographers from Mumbai scrambled to capture stories of the chaos and the challenge of preventing transmission in Asia's largest slum. Please click here to...
More »Punjab: Muslims Families Hide in Riverbed After Being Driven From Hoshiarpur Villages -Prabhjit Singh
-TheWire.in After three days, the families were brought some ration by the authorities. However, no case has been filed against those who beat and abused them. Hoshiarpur: Several children, women and men on Wednesday continued to hide themselves in the Swan riverbed, without for the food for three days now, on the Punjab side of the state’s marshy borders with Himachal Pradesh. They were allegedly abused, beaten and chased away from their...
More »Civil society group asks for social safety measures for migrant and informal workers from Jharkhand against the backdrop of coronavirus lockdown
-Press release by Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha dated by 25th March, 2020 Jharkhand, like most of India, has woken up late to the COVID-19 pandemic and is yet to provide adequate social security to the people. Although no COVID-19 case has been officially reported in Jharkhand so far, this may be a myth since the state has only one testing centre where only a few dozen samples have been tested, according to...
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