India coronavirus dispatch: Why heart surgeries have got scaled back
Here is a selection of important Covid-19-related articles in
Indian news publications. From the informal Indian
economy in the time of a pandemic, to making cities liveable
for migrants after lockdown, and why Mumbai is still struggling to cope with coronavirus — read these and more in
today’s India dispatch.
Expert Speak
Migrant labourers are the most disenfranchised
invisible citizens: For a majority of migrant labourers,
migration is either a livelihood accumulation strategy or survival
risk-reducing strategy, whichever way we define the nature of migration.
Migration studies also confirm that migrant labourers are the most exploited
and disenfranchised invisible citizens. Read this interview with political
scientist Ashwani Kumar, whose forthcoming co-edited book Migration and Mobility
is to be out soon. Kumar speaks on migration, inter-state workers and amendment
to the Inter-State Migrant Workers Act, 1979.
Managing Covid-19
Govt would have done well to heed
experts: In their second joint statement, a Covid-19 task force of
the Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), Indian Association of Preventive
and Social Medicine (IAPSM) and Indian Association of Epidemiologists (IAE) has
stated that the current situation in India with regard to the coronavirus cases could have been avoided
if migrant workers had been allowed to go home before a lockdown was
imposed.
Why Mumbai is still struggling to
cope with coronavirus: Hospital wards have corpses left
unattended in hallways. Patients are asked to sleep on the floor until beds
open up. A woman with brain damage dies because she is refused medical help
until her family would prove she is virus-free. The public healthcare system in
Mumbai, epicentre of India’s worsening coronavirus outbreak, is overwhelmed as
Covid-19 patients pour in and hospital staff work around the clock. Medical
care for non-coronavirus patients has basically been shut off for lack of
resources.
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