Nalgonda/Telangana: The raging second wave of Covid-19 has introduced down the governments on knees. Covid sufferers in Metropolitans gasp for Oxygen because the hospitals attain their saturation and the virus is onwards to plunge into the hinterlands the place healthcare is simply learn in books and never practiced in life.
If you wish to know concerning the issues confronted by Covid contaminated poverty-stricken folks residing in villages, it’s best to know the story of Shiva, who quarantined himself on a tree for 11 days after testing constructive for the virus.
Keeping his hope intact, gritty Shiva constructed a cot with two units of bamboo sticks on a tree and had quarantined for 11 days. He did all this in worry of spreading the virus to his household as his home is small. This story of course shows his robust character but additionally reveals the weak hyperlinks within the distant villages.
A juxtaposed story that shows the pathetic situation of medical practices in Indian villages is from a distant place in Uttar Pradesh, the place the Covid sufferers are left in a lurch underneath a tree, in keeping with a report in Reuters. In Mewla Gopalgarh, a not very far hinterland from Delhi, folks die in a span of two days after affected by fever. There isn’t any medical practitioner and no close by Covid testing centre. The Covid-sick within the village are taken care of by leaving them to their destiny underneath a tree someplace within the nook of the village.
In one other village someplace in Bihar, the place folks stay close to to disdain of authorities and much from consciousness and improvement, there’s a sudden surge within the demise toll for the final two weeks. People die as a result of breathlessness and chilly that are signs of Covid however there is no such thing as a Covid facility to get examined and so are the deaths not as a result of virus. If the fundamentals of having docs within the PHC and Covid testing centres are usually not obtainable, there is no such thing as a technique to forestall the virus and know the trigger of demise. The villages’ information misses from ‘Coronavirus All India Report’ when the testing facility being a far-fetched thought.
It’s subsequent to unattainable for folks in villages residing in small homes with no or single washrooms to not unfold virus from Covid constructive sufferers as there is no such thing as a area for quarantining. After the surge in Covid numbers, the Centre lately issued contemporary SOPs which deal with scientific administration practices and Covid containment in rural and semi-urban areas.
Village degree surveillance, coaching in antigen testing and teleconsultation with docs are the focal factors within the Centre’s new pointers to battle Covid-19 which is spreading in villages.
