-The Indian Express Over six months after the riots, the Delhi government faces charges of delays, mismatches and false rejections over its compensation disbursal to victims and their families. New Delhi: After his small restaurant in Gokulpuri was vandalised and looted during the Northeast Delhi riots, Usman Ali sought Rs 3 lakh in damages from the state government. He was paid Rs 750. Days into her pregnancy, on February 25, Gulzeb Parveen’s husband...
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Despair in a Package: How a Private Hospital in Delhi Tried to Fleece a COVID Patient -Sweta Dash
-TheWire.in As her mother lay in the ICU, a young woman fought harder than a government representative to enforce the state’s price cap order for COVID cases. She won the battle, but lost her mother. New Delhi: On June 24, when Mayanka Sanghotra learned that her mother, Narender Kaur, had tested positive for COVID-19, she was naturally alarmed. She could not get through to any of the government helpline numbers listed online,...
More »COVID-19 in South Asia: India Lags Behind Pak on Stimulus, Lanka on Overall Performance -Deepankar Basu and Priyanka Srivastava
-TheWire.in In each of the four large South Asian nations, the response of the state to the pandemic has been shaped by long standing and underlying political faultlines. In parts one and two of this article, we have discussed the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, preparedness (in terms of health infrastructure), and the government’s public health responses to the pandemic in four South Asian countries. In this concluding part, we discuss two...
More »Number of critical Covid-19 patients has halved across the country, shows data
-Hindustan Times Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had said on Sunday that no Covid-19 case has been reported in 10 states and union territories in the last 24 hours. The number of patients turning critical due to the coronavirus disease Covid-19 has halved, the Union health ministry has said. According to Hindustan Times’ Hindi language publication Hindustan, which is quoting data from the health ministry, only five per cent of Covid-19 patients turn critical. Till...
More »602 hospitals earmarked as dedicated COVID-19 facilities: Health Ministry
-The Indian Express Coronavirus lockdown: While the death toll has risen to 339, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country neared 10,400. As many as 1,035 persons have recovered from the virus. At least 602 dedicated COVID-19 hospitals having 1,06,719 isolation beds and 12,024 ICU beds have been readied in country, said Joint Secretary, Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal Tuesday in a routine media briefing on the coronavirus situation in the...
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