Three medical professional associations have submitted a joint statement to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 25, criticising the governm...
Three medical professional associations have submitted a joint statement to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 25, criticising the government’s handling of the novel coronavirus epidemic and making recommendations for the future.
The signatories include former advisors to the health ministry, current and former professors at the All India Institute for Medical Sciences, Benaras Hindu University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, among others.
These experts are members of the Indian Public Health Association, the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine and the Indian Association of Epidemiologists.
Notably, among the signatories is Dr DCS Reddy, former professor at Institute of Medical Sciences at BHU, who was appointed as the head of the research group on epidemiology and surveillance constituted by the Indian government’s National Task Force for Covid-19 on April 6. Another member of the research group, Dr Shashi Kant, professor and head of the Centre for Community Medicine at AIIMS, New Delhi, has also signed this statement.
Full text of the analysis and the recommendations from the statement:
Situation Analysis
The ongoing pandemic is a public health emergency with grave implications for the entire world. India as part of the global community has also been adversely impacted with a catastrophic ‘double burden’: 145,000+...
