Elective surgeries are those that can be scheduled in advance but cannot be avoided for a prolonged period. They were put on hold as Covid pandemic kicked in.
When we began the procedure, the atmosphere in the OT was electrifying. The surgery would take at least 14 to 16 hours and for many of us, without a rest.
Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
The lockdown and its coming into effect without any notice with the police going overboard in enforcing it did impact the receipt of healthcare by those in the process of receiving it; even the residents of a metro took a hit while one can’t imagine the kind of sufferings of those living in the cities with not that good a healthcare delivery infrastructure and the rural areas.
What’s an emergency? Does the Govt see only a condition that has an immediate threat as an emergency?
What about a patient of a malignancy who is receiving chemotherapy or radiation? The patient might not immediately die due to interruption in Chemotherapy but the delays will impact his recovery and could take his life!
What about the threat to loss of vision?
The patients of the above two conditions won’t be recognisable to a bystander or the cop who would stop you on the road; a patient might not be able to even reach the hospital if he doesn’t own his own transport.
The harebrained approach of this Govt because the head of the Govt, he is a megalomaniac, can take any decision without being questioned by his cabinet colleagues and held to account by media and even his electorates because of his having a identity-based voters and a dead Opposition made the Govt take this decision which adversely impacted the health of the citizens; I myself suffered!
To cover New Delhi news there are national channels like NDTV etc.
So , my request please cover Indian news not just Delhi news. We are fed up.
The lockdown and its coming into effect without any notice with the police going overboard in enforcing it did impact the receipt of healthcare by those in the process of receiving it; even the residents of a metro took a hit while one can’t imagine the kind of sufferings of those living in the cities with not that good a healthcare delivery infrastructure and the rural areas.
What’s an emergency? Does the Govt see only a condition that has an immediate threat as an emergency?
What about a patient of a malignancy who is receiving chemotherapy or radiation? The patient might not immediately die due to interruption in Chemotherapy but the delays will impact his recovery and could take his life!
What about the threat to loss of vision?
The patients of the above two conditions won’t be recognisable to a bystander or the cop who would stop you on the road; a patient might not be able to even reach the hospital if he doesn’t own his own transport.
The harebrained approach of this Govt because the head of the Govt, he is a megalomaniac, can take any decision without being questioned by his cabinet colleagues and held to account by media and even his electorates because of his having a identity-based voters and a dead Opposition made the Govt take this decision which adversely impacted the health of the citizens; I myself suffered!