-Hindustan Times The second wave will deepen inequality. Expand support to states, universalise PDS, and ramp up MGNREGS now Abandoned by the State that insisted on locking down, refusing to recognise the damage done to their livelihoods, India’s workers asserted their rights and made themselves heard by walking home in March 2020. The long march home was emblematic of the suffering and hardship unleashed by the first wave. A year later, it is...
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Govt’s infection fatality claim shows India missing 23 infections for every reported Covid case -Abantika Ghosh
-ThePrint.in Niti Aayog member Dr V.K. Paul says govt estimates that India has an infection fatality rate of 0.05%. But there's no sero survey data after January to back this claim. New Delhi: India could be missing 23 infections for every reported Covid-19 case in the country, according to estimates shared by NITI Aayog member (health) Dr V.K. Paul Thursday. Rejecting mortality numbers published in The New York Times, Dr Paul said the...
More »Lack of Political Will, Not Grains, Is Why We Do Not Have Universal PDS -Shambhavi Sharma and Sourya Majumder
-TheWire.in Can the Union government exercise its sovereignty in extending food subsidies to states during a historic crisis despite an enlarged fiscal deficit? Some states have started responding to the Supreme Court’s directions on ensuring food security, cash transfers and transportation for migrant workers. It is time the Union government steps up. In a suo moto hearing on May 13, the Supreme Court observed that migrant workers have once again been left in...
More »'Enough is enough': IMA demands prosecution of Ramdev under Epidemics Act -Deepali Sharma
-Hindustan Times "Enough is enough," IMA said slamming Ramdev for what it called “repeatedly taking advantage of the situation and creating fear among the public to sell his illegal drugs.” Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday lashed out at Yoga guru Ramdev for his remarks on allopathy and demanded the Union health minister Harsh Vardhan to prosecute him under Epidemic diseases Act 1897 or accept his accusations and dissolve the modern medical...
More »The fault line of poor health infrastructure -Ashwini Deshpande
-The Hindu As and when India emerges on the other side of the pandemic, bolstering public care systems has to be the top priority As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ravages India, many bitter home truths and fault lines have been starkly exposed. One of these is the abysmally poor state of the country’s health infrastructure. World Bank data reveal that India had 85.7 physicians per 1,00,000 people in 2017...
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