A 25-year-old village resident reported sick at the Basti district hospital on March 28. For more than two days, he was shunted from ward t...
A 25-year-old village resident reported sick at the Basti district hospital on March 28. For more than two days, he was shunted from ward to ward and hospital to hospital before he finally died in Gorakhpur, the largest city in eastern Uttar Pradesh, 70 km from Basti. He would be the first confirmed coronavirus casualty in the state.
The 48 hours leading up to his death paint a grim picture of provincial India’s health infrastructure and bare the lack of preparedness or even training to handle the pandemic.
More than 3,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in the country till April 4. From 75 districts on March 22, the outbreak has now spread to 211 of India’s 720 districts. Though no clear data is available, media reports show many of the cases have emerged in rural areas.
Rural healthcare facilities in India are under-staffed and under-equipped even in the best of times with some districts lacking even a basic district hospital. How are rural health systems coping with the coronavirus outbreak?
Scroll.in traced the graph of three Covid-19 patients in rural Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Assam and found alarming gaps in detection, isolation and treatment in two states. To make matters worse, the health authorities in Uttar Pradesh and...
