In India's world-worst Covid crisis, a family's traumatic quest for help
More than 187,000 people have died from the virus that is ravaging India, according to official figures, as the country grapples with the deluge of deaths and a collapsing health care system.
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Reading this there is only one thing that comes to mind. We need Indian beaurocracy's head on a stick and this time we want their family's heads too.
We had been cursing politicians et al for too long, about time we hit the real source of problem, the british designed and appointed beaurocracy in India. They need to suffer. And by suffer I mean suffer and die.
I don't think vaccine exports or donations have been a problem. In all these are 6-7 Carore. In a country of 130 carore, these are not even 5%. In current crisis, these would have been too small to matter. I am with MEA on this, our outrage is misplaced here and more "ideological" than practical.
The real culprit are :
1. The lack of prepration in our health care system. Oxygen, supplies of drugs and hospital beds are main issues. These should have been stockpiled and installed and operationalized last year latest. This is beyond any reason and is criminal. All the deaths due to this are simply criminal. This was not expensive, not hard and was way obvious. I mean China made hospitals in matter of days, I guess we could have made tin-shades with some straw for insulation in matter of months at worst? Is Installing a new oxygen concentrator really that hard? Leave that is floating a tender when there is 3000 Carore available, really that hard?
2. Procurement of vaccine manufacturing supplies. USA invoked DPA pretty late for vaccine manufacturing supplies like Bio reactor bags, culture media, filters, tubings etc. When trump asked for all the HCQ last year, we should have bartered massive amounts of such items to ensure an uninterrupted supply of these items in our pharma industry. 2-3 billions, maximum 5 billions would have been enough to procure these items. Most of pharama in USA at that time did not have the scale (it was ramped up later). We missed this bad. When UK reached out for vaccine supply to us, we should have asked them to supply us the required supplies first. Same with Germany etc. If we had these items, we would be producing upward of 200-300 million doses of vaccines every month. Enough to speed up our vaccination and to even supply abroad. There should have been a covid task force working closely with pharma industry to ensure there are enough national stockpiles of these supplies so that there are no impediments to scale up production.
None of these are political issues. All of these are criminal administrative callousness and incompetence and negligence. They fall squarely in the lap of beaurocracy. IAS et el need to be punished. They should be shot dead along with their families in public so that no one dares to take such matters non-seriously in future.
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No point in blaming bureaucracy alone if we dont fix the politicians. Its high time we started holding ppl in positions accountable.In India's world-worst Covid crisis, a family's traumatic quest for help
More than 187,000 people have died from the virus that is ravaging India, according to official figures, as the country grapples with the deluge of deaths and a collapsing health care system.
Reading this there is only one thing that comes to mind. We need Indian beaurocracy's head on a stick and this time we want their family's heads too.
We had been cursing politicians et al for too long, about time we hit the real source of problem, the british designed and appointed beaurocracy in India. They need to suffer. And by suffer I mean suffer and die.
US has already made it clear no exports, we should have started shoring up stuff before situation became horrible. Given our population size we should have expected it sooner or later. ppl were stupidly high on patting their own backs and focusing on getting limelight.
No sir. Politicians are NOT the ones who are causing issues, its the beauracacy. Its they who bungle things up.
Besides, for past so many decades we have been fixing politicians but it did not generate much impact, does it not seem common sense to look for issues elsewhere as well?
Lastly, I doubt politicians have enough knowledge or courage to administer the country. It is done by IAS. We need to fix them. And by fix I mean we need to purge them totally and brutally and build it a new.
I am not a doctor but from what i have seen in last month and from my own experience is that if your SPo2 level fall below 90% , do not wait. go to hospital and try to get oxygen mask ( flow rate need to be set by physician, don't do it yourself ). it doesn't matter if you are feeling well. Spo2 when drop start dropping fast. Mine went fronm 91% in morning to 75% by night and i almost died.
covid usually attack lungs a week after first symptoms and situation deteriorate fast. if your oxygen level drop below 90% make sure to get yourself to hospital.
It's time you give it a rest. Beauracacy is doing it's job quite well despite the resources, so is govt of India.
I have shared the link to keep track of countries being supplied the medicine, in a positive way, you have taken it otherwise mate.
US will never support India, especially when it involves internal collapse of emergency services. It's in US's interest to fan internal strives and keep GoI unpopular among Indians and thus have hold on compromised politicians. This will also facilitate their missionaries and NGOs.
Can you tell what is your age?
Do you drink/smoke?
Do you have regular exercise like gym?
I am in late 20s. No i don't drink and smoke. and i go to gym once a week. I am waiting for my CT & MRI result which will come by Monday . Virus has done some damage to my lungs , recovery will take time according to doctor.