Tag: COVID-19 pandemic

  • Vaccine hesitancy in India needs urgent attention

    ‘TIKA EXPRESS’ (Vaccine Express) vans are roaming across various districts of Bihar. Comprising healthcare workers carrying vaccines against Covid-19, the mobile vans station at designated spots and wait for eligible people to line-up for the doses. But in several places, especially in villages, the vaccine hesitancy is so high that vans wait for hours, and…

  • Oxygen is need of the hour in India

    ONLY days ago, a prominent Delhi hospital ran out of medical oxygen that led to the death of 12 coronavirus patients, including a doctor of that very hospital – the head of its gastroenterology unit Dr R K Himthani. The hospital, facing an acute shortage of ventilators and ICU beds, raised an alarm over dwindling…

  • Rising child malnutrition is a serious cause of concern

    HERE is what child malnutrition looks like: Four-year-old Kamini is in agony as she lies in a government hospital in a district in Maharashtra. She has flaky skin and swollen limbs hang from a reed-thin frame revealing her life-threatening condition. She is severely undernourished and suffers from Kwashiorkor – an extremely severe form of malnourishment…