Current Situation Of Covid-19 In India

University of California psychiatrist tells why Ayurveda cannot be mass produced, but should be custom made for a person's "dosha composit". [At 1:15:30 on the video.]

So cute and bubbly professor...

 

Burkha Dutt is going walkabout in the rural areas of the Hindi speaking state [UP], and talking to village headmen:
Here is a poor head-guy who has no cloth for a face-mask; but plenty for his head.


Burkha Dutt :

 

Full text here: Former Civil Servants Slam Modi Govt for Mishandling Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic

An open letter written by those who were also responsible for the last several decades of corruption, and mismanagement of national treasury. A bunch of quiet, long term collaborators suddenly getting an attack of conscience is high comedy. Easily beats the tearjerking performance of the one who is addressed in the letter.

 

Healthcare in Andhra -- why Krishnapatnam Medicine for Covid-19 was a super hit:

Aarogyasri, founded in 2007 by then-Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, is the first program in India to provide government-subsidized health insurance to poor families in India. It covers all families with a yearly income of less than 60,000 rupees ($1,000), meaning that almost 85 percent of the state's population qualifies. N Purendra Prasad, a sociologist at the University of Hyderabad, and his co-author, P Raghavendra, argued in an essay in the Economic and Political Weekly, that it was the decisive factor in the Congress Party's victory in the 2009 state elections for the Legislative Assembly.

"The Aarogyasri Trust has empanelled 491 hospitals in the state, of which nearly 80 per cent are in the private sector while the remaining 20 per cent are government hospitals," wrote Mr. Prasad and Mr. Raghavendra. The sociologists also pointed out that although the Aarogyasri scheme was targeted at poor villagers, most of the empanelled hospitals are private hospitals, which don't exist in rural areas.

More questions are being raised about Aarogyasri's impact on health care availability for the poor. A 2011 study by three Harvard School of Public Health fellows said that Aarogyasri only weakens government hospitals by forcing them to compete with private hospitals for patients in order to receive funding. Roughly 13 billion rupees of the state's 60 billion rupee budget for health care goes to Aarogyasri – government funds that used to be spent on equipment in government hospitals are now spent paying private hospitals to treat poor patients. [from: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/hyderabad-debates-health-insurance-model-public-hospitals-decay]
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The transfer ot tax money to private corporations, in exchange for "support" during reelection efforts of legislators isn't exclusive to India.

 

Dr. Soumya of the World Health Organization tells Burkha Dutt how India can tackle what is going on, given there will not be enough vaccine in the country any time soon. Her list of things to do is daunting. This can leave you feeling that the nation is totally buggered.

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Meanwhile in Madurai , mid air wedding
Mid-air wedding violates Covid norms; DGCA orders probe