-The Hindu India raises objections to methodology used by WHO to compute excess deaths “Inaccurate,” is how a scientist, part of a World Health Organisation (WHO) team computing the global death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, described India’s objections to the method used. A forthcoming WHO analysis reportedly computes India’s true toll to be much higher than official estimates. The Union Health Ministry on Saturday, in response to article, “India is Stalling the...
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India objects to WHO methodology for calculating COVID-19 toll -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu Health Ministry responds to reports of India stalling the world health body’s efforts India has been in regular and in-depth technical exchange with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the issue of collecting and making public the COVID-19 death toll in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday in response to The New York Times article titled India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death...
More »Waging war for sustenance -Aunindyo Chakravarty
-The Tribune Disruption in supplies due to Ukraine crisis may create food shortage, price distortions The war in Ukraine has become a war on the world’s poor. Russia and Ukraine, together, accounted for a quarter of the world’s wheat exports, one-sixth of global corn exports, nearly a third of barley and three-fourths of the export of sunflower oil. American sanctions on Russia mean it cannot sell its extra wheat in the global...
More »HOPS as a route to universal health care -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu ‘Healthcare as an optional public service’ would ensure the legal right to receive free, quality care in a public institution The lingering COVID-19 crisis is a good time to revive an issue that is, oddly, slow to come to life in India — universal health care (UHC). Meanwhile, UHC has become a well-accepted objective of public policy around the world. It has even been largely realised in many countries, not...
More »IPCC report: Clap for Kolkata’s public transport -Jayanta Basu
-Down to Earth The city's inadequate drainage system results in frequent flooding, it says Kolkata in West Bengal has something to cheer about: Its much-criticised public transport system got an elaborate mention in the third instalment of the sixth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). The most significant report on the global climate crisis referred to the city’s public transport network as an “illustrative case study” to showcase integrated...
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