New Delhi: A new report by Oxfam India highlights the disproportionate effect of the second wave of Covid-19 in Indian countryside.
In May 2021, one in every two cases was in rural areas, while countries such as Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan had 75% of their cases in rural areas, the report stated.
“Report inequality of 2021- Health stories that are not equivalent to India” proceed with stating that “India is very enlarged Disaster-19-19-19 Second – explained the weakness of the public health care system.” Make a strong case for investment in health infrastructure, reports highlight that “state government with higher expenditure for health has a Covid-19 case which is confirmed lower.
Countries such as Odisha and Goa, with higher health expenditure also have The higher recovery rate than Covid.
“In addition to drawing based on various available national data sources, Oxfam shares found a survey conducted by their team towards the end of 2020.
They covered 768 respondents from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala, Bihar and Bihar and Bihar and Odisha is good suffering from Covid-19 or has recovered from it.
The survey found that the percentage of respondents in low-income brackets faced by discrimination in the community to become positive covids was five times more than those in the high-income bracket.
Also more than 50% of SCS and STS among those surveyed faced difficulties in accessing non-covid medical facilities compared to 18.2% in the general category.
The percentage of SCS using unsafe water sources is three times the general category for open wells, and four times for open spring or flow.
Among female respondents, 33.9% experienced anxiety, irritation and anger, and lack of sleep during locking compared to 18.2% of men.
The report also highlights that “the second wave is characterized by infrastructure hoses, excessive in hospitals, black marketing drugs, and insecure vaccination drives.
In cities, this virus affects the middle and upper middle class.
On the other hand, The second wave is more difficult for rural populations compared to the first.
“” In the middle of it all, while the driving of Indian vaccination seeks to overcome the second wave by investing in the population, the execution is damaged due to lack of vaccines and operations that move to the mobile application make it only accessible by them or smartphone, “stated.
The author of report points was only in June 2021 that the center revised its vaccine policy.
“While the government-managed centers only now open registration, the vaccine strategy must be seen critically from the gender lens to ensure that the digital division and lack of information does not hamper vaccine access to women and other marginalized groups,” this was repeated.
This report applies to pointing that in the Union 2021-22 budget, a year after a pandemic, the Ministry of Health is allocated total INR 76,901 Crore, a decrease of 9.8% from RS 85,250 Crore from the estimated revised 2020-21 of the revision.
Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam India said, “continuous violence from the public health system, especially primary health care and inadequate health infrastructure in India is still overcome by the government even after the second wave is devastating.
If not, health emergency will only be exacerbates existing inequality and works as a loss for the poor and marginalized.
Declaring health as constitutional rights can help bridge this gap.
“Anjela Taneja, inequality, leadership of health and education, Oxfam India added that” state health status today is proof of dreams ‘Health for all’ is not fulfilled.
The highest health rights that can be achieved are still far from realized.
Even after one year to Pandemi and face two Covid-19 waves, the Indian government has repeated its failure to allocate 2.5% of gross domestic products (GDP) for K Shadow.
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