domingo, 23 de junio de 2019

If bad old habits continue in ‘new India’, there will be no new India | The Indian Express

If bad old habits continue in ‘new India’, there will be no new India | The Indian Express

If bad old habits continue in ‘new India’, there will be no new India

What is no longer acceptable is that our politicians and high officials should be permitted criminal neglect of government health services, simply because they never have to use them.

Relatives visit child patients who suffer from acute encephalitis syndrome at a hospital in Muzaffarpur (Reuters)


How many more children must die before we notice that our public health services are not just broken, they simply do not exist in whole swathes of India? I speak of the hospital of horrors in Muzaffarpur. I am haunted by the glazed eyes of children lying three and four to a bed with needles stuck in their tiny arms. So, although, many things happened last week that are more appropriate for a political column, I feel compelled to dedicate this column to Bihar’s dead children.

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