Ramaswami

This Blog is about the democratic movements in India. Its only aim and objective is to fight against the anti-people policies of the ruling class.

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Full blown like China or Italy? No way. Maybe Kerala and Tamil Nadu could perhaps handle it, but Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will collapse. The health system in the northern states—both public and private—is weak and will get overwhelmed if the case load increases exponentially. It is for this reason that the strategy is to contain and flatten it out so that the case load is in keeping with the health system’s capacity to cope. The issue also is that things like social distancing are not uniform across the country. They are state specific. Andhra Pradesh does not have social distancing, but Telangana has. So, for instance, if a person comes from Iran and passes through Hyderabad on his way to Andhra, what happens? We need to have uniformity and coordination in the implementation of the preventive strategies as the next two weeks are crucial for us.

India is not equipped to tackle a full blown epidemic: Former health secretary K. Sujatha Rao




Ramaswami at 11:03 PM
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