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are adrian again with you here in the headlines and i'll just hear a southeast asia is struggling with a surgeon corona, virus infections, malaysia as imposing a nationwide to weak lockdown. and vietnam is suspending international flights. florence lea reports from kwan lump up on this the restrictions in malaysia. the government says this is necessary to prevent the collapse of a health care system that's already under severe strain. so now and only essential services and sectors are allowed to operate at reduced capacity. and even then people want to go into work have to have a letter from the relevant ministry to show that they do belong in one of the allowed sectors. and schools also shot and only 2 persons per household are allowed out to obtain essential items within a 10 kilometer radius from their home. in bangladesh, that's been a surgeon new infections. the national lockdown has been extended for

a further month. health officials are especially concerned about the increase in cases in districts over the, along the border with india. the government in peru has more than doubled its corona virus death toll. so 180000 health officials admits that the number of fatalities has been under reported prompting them to change the criteria. so i can authorities have begun a criminal investigation into a cargo ship fire that's responsible for one of the countries was ecological disasters. it was carrying large amounts of toxic, nitric acid, acid and micro plastics. much of it is spilled overboard, causing widespread damage and turkish agents have snatched the nephew of a man in turkey. man, the turkey accused of orchestrating a failed crew in 2016 cellar. had the gland as wanted, being a member of his uncle's movement. others, the headlines ponies for him. i was just here after the stream. next there is no channel that covers world views like we do. the scale of this camp is like nothing

you've ever access to healthcare or something. well, we want to know, how does these things affect people? we revisit places day, even when they're no international headlines. also they're really invest in that. and that's a privilege. as a journalist, ah, i answer the okay to down the street. we're going to bring you the latest uncovered 19 in india. of course the story about india 2nd wife made headlines for many weeks . we are not leaving this story behind. so if you're on youtube right now, you've got comments, you've got questions, we have experts in the house today. you can also than anything, and i'm sure they will be out to respond to you. so be part of that conversation. meanwhile, earlier this week, at the beginning of the week, prime minister modi in india acknowledge the india have multiple challenges right now. tropical slide close to deal with an also

a global pandemic heavily regarding the base bully, we are witnessing how our nation is fighting covered 19 with full strength. it is the worst pandemic in the past 100 years. and during this, pandemic, india also boldly faced several natural disaster live, but i will be off. so multiple challenges for india. and how is india dealing with cove at 19? will politics get in the way? is politics getting in the way? let me introduce you to add gas. we have a new we have thought to thought i lee, and hopefully we'll be joined by dr. joe uter as well. but festival, a new welcome back to the stream. nice to see you remind everybody who you are and what you do. hi sammy, i'm, i know i'm a health care reporter. i work at a data journalism i'll call in and get to have you talk to somebody, walk into the stream. tell everybody who you are and what you do. thank you for me

to the pleasure to join you today. i'm a medical doctor by background, and i work in public health. i specifically work in be aerial. how do we make health systems stronger and more resilient? get to have a bill to join you to welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to our international audience. thank you for having me on the show for me. i'm dr. jerico, i'm a physician and i look off to patients who have wid and other diseases, but i don't treat the i see patients. i read the mail to margaret home care. i guess it's so good to happy because you all have by virtue of being in india, you have point line experience. as the 2nd wave of covert, i knew if we were looking for the current headline, one headline i would you tell our audience is important to pay attention to what's going on now. i think the big story was, i think the last time when i was on your show, it was about oxygen and the lack of oxygen logistically,

the government has figure that out. but right now it really is this vaccine crisis because in does vaccine crisis is a global vaccine crisis. the w 2 s t scientists has just said that there are 91 countries in africa waiting for maxine because india had committed to supply those acts in for the w h. all so indian put on getting the vaccines here, but the what the world is not getting, it's like seeing the, the, i think this is the big, big area. thank you for sharing that with us. so if you suddenly looking at the numbers for the number of new infections, they appear to be going down in an area right now. what are you most concerned about? i think even though the numbers are going down and that is good zeros, we have to be careful because the numbers are still much higher than the highest we saw during the 1st rate, 900000 at its peak and we are still seeing about 150000 a day. so we're still not out of the woods. we still don't know what is happening

in a lot of places outside of the metro's. so we really, really need to be on a lower status. i got this huge comment coming freshman. hello james. nice to have you part of the program today. jane said it was about the amount of cases india is reporting. is that the true amount? i bet there are many cases that are reported and people who have died. and then the not sure that they dido cover because they haven't been test, but still need to want to pick up on that. yeah, i think you know, that registration is generally and reporting is generally an issue in countries like india. so from that angle there is under counting, there is a lack of testing facilities and who delirious. so there are stories of, you know, 3040 deaths in the village out of which may be one or 2 people managed to get a test. so of course there is definitely on the counting whether it is deliberate or it is just

a function also has system that was not adequately prepared. that is debatable, but definitely there is under counting the sheet. i wanted to get a little sense of what your covert 19 2nd wave life is like in india right now. what story would you tell us to give us some insight this same round as supposed to what we had during the 1st week. life was a little easier. we didn't. we haven't seen these numbers ever. i have not seen these numbers in my life. i've been practicing for a long, long time. this is what we do. this is what we're supposed to be doing. this is what we've signed up for, but i don't think we ever thought that we would sign up for where we were making calls for oxygen. maybe we're making cars to get medicines. essentially medicines that maybe were making cause 2 of us for baby begging for beds or christian beds. i assume it's,

i mean the medicine part of it is easy for us. we know what we do. we have to do. we know what we right. we know what we have to prescribe, but it was heartbreaking to me cause for oxygen because 4 beds. and then having to think, having to tell the families that you know, you're not on your own. i can tell them that you're on your own, but i pretty much have to, you know, say that, that they would have to look around for beds and for christian. and it was just not me because there were just so many patients who were completely overwhelmed. i knew you're not in your family, you're not in documentary. yeah, it was just, it was a nightmare. or, you know, and i use an analogy for this. it was like for a patient to get care during the crisis during the beak was almost like being in a storm. and the only way to get shelter is a pile of microscopic lego bricks. and you have to piece together your shells using

those lego bricks. and that's the only way you can be the only way you can be saved from the storm. so it was pretty much unlike anything any, all 5 was ever prepared for the entire health system. sort of came apart. every little piece had to be stitched together by the family. from, you know, getting oxygen to medicines, to getting transport better. the ambulance has oxygen does not have oxygen. some people was even a case that i was familiar with, where the woman spent 2 days in an ambulance because that was the only way for her to get oxygen. hospitals were running out of oxygen. so even going to a hospital was not a guarantee that you know, you would get an steady supply of oxygen. so it was quite, quite as awesome. do you stay in deli, at that time tell you been in states like what their position? yeah. sounds like the worst moment the worst time we saw those pictures of people.

oh, my sewing, gasping for air was as we were covering those stories. but i knew right now the oxygen crisis appears to have passed. you update this? yeah, i just wanted to reply to that because i think, you know, a lot of people are now referring to this in the past and that we did do these kind of things and we did have these problems. the ministers just released the statement that's a lot of his way. you've kind of bragging about this. now as the success, you know, that he gets all the oxygen problem. but then the question to me really is if this was a solvable problem, if this was something that man could handle, man did not handle, you know, there was a, there's a natural calamity that we're dealing with in terms of the panoramic. but this was a logistical issue that we should have hand carried. so we're able to talk about it now in boston, but it means that they needed to have been who went intervention to have not got after that place in the 1st place. but it's only i want to, i, i totally agree with, you know,

i totally agree with on all. much of the crisis that we saw was actually not caused by the virus. it was caused by a lack of foresight, lack of preparedness. last year there was a sort of hubris that was prevailing that somehow indians are somehow naturally immune to the virus which happened in the start which has happened after the 1st wave. they were even declarations that by our leaders that india has gotten through the was to fit. so, you know, so there was a certain narrative which was really not scientific and public health experts. india has excellent public health expertise. india has the resources as we are speaking, india spending about i believe, $140000000.00 on developing on redeveloping the central historical part of delhi. you know, so we have sufficient resources, we have suction to expertise, but we somehow fail to deploy it adequately to ensure adequate preparedness. we

help we help feeling to also have adequate vaccination ramp up. so there is a certain failure of leadership and i would say it is a little bit came to what is being witnessed in brazil also, but solely your so nuance that anyone outside of india main dot of call, what you were saying there. and that is where the p j p decides to put their money . that money is available for certain things and attention, certain things and not the office like critical health care for india. i'm just making that very clear because that is what you're saying. let me just bring in doctor check who is concerned about what is happening in rural areas of india. have a listen gets. so the why does know sort of spreading to be part of the country and it's what it's on for 2 reasons. as i see it, number one that a death of testing facilities,

a number to the gender identity among the population that will india to get tested . the only solution to this problems i see it is if you complete the image actually ramping up facilities and as many individuals as possible, isolated the cases and vaccinate to the potential population. i don't think there's any other way a problem and a solution nation to add a shack. what do you think? thoughts on, on any start 1st and then dot stone. you can, you can go 2nd. absolutely. in agreement. we should all, as you know, people of india as the public, we should all keep an eye on the testing rates of our cities and states. and if you see them falling down, we have to raise the hue and cry. it's the only way to detect a serge early and avoid crude measures like a lockdown, which really hurt the war. and i think i'm in total agreement with what was said

that juanita. i completely agree with what was said. in fact, letting when the, when the peak of the 2nd, when the testing facilities were not adequate enough, we didn't have enough, as many people who are not get to tested. so the numbers would, whatever numbers you see, what the numbers that, that have been projected. i would say the least it would say 30 percent more than what was projected. we had families with patients. the families had all of them had symptoms, but only one or 2 people got tested. those will just only assume that they were cool with punitive and they were just given treatment according leave because there was no testing gets available. so they have to ramp up testing. they have to get the vaccination and please, and they have to continue to isolate the patient. education is so korea is so important, not just for india and covered 1902nd way, but for all of us around the world. and there's been some very tricky moments to

india regarding information education and misinformation. let's start with something that i'm gonna call black fungus, doctor juanita for then you're going to tell me the medical name for it and why it's coming. a big problem. go ahead. so it's bless mean, give it the proper name that's calling you call my settings and this fungus, i of, you're not sure we are a little bit across through the boat where coming from because in the previous week or 2, we give that many states that many patients had uncontrolled sugars, so we're not sure whether it's the screen which is causing this fungus to come up. so you should be what receive this has been this time around because of adrian has been particularly vigilant and has caused indiscriminate use of the roads. and we been seeing that patients are being giving high do those series, and they've been given it for a longer period of time. so this will cause an india that, that,

but the capital of the one, the lot of people who sugars have gone undiagnosed richard played up because of the stated that have been given also took over courses the immune system to did it. and this also allows the fungus to grow. so this is one of the reasons why this is coming up for new to me. critical. yeah, go, go, go ahead, go ahead. i was just doing some reporting for a story on this and i think one of the terms that you use is very key. we're talking about missing information. and i think he has had a problem with irrationality and medicine even before this pandemic, there's a tendency for doctors to, i mean, some doctors to all the prescribe or patients to demand for medicines. they may not need for the irrationality. and i think we've seen that happen a lot in the 2nd we've especially on this issue of the lloyd's, which is directly linked to this, to the size of life on this. and

a lot of it from what i understand from the doctors who i've spoken to, they said that you know, from the prescription order that they've done. and i think our doctor and then we just spoke with one of the doctors i was going to last week. he was saying that, you know, the bulk of the prescriptions would be seeing people who are come to them after already having been on steroids for a very long time and been put on very early on in the course of their diagnosis. so this is a rational and this is miss inflammation really, because the patients who are rationalizing doctors who put them on some fetus treatment or dr. feeling like they need to do something. and it's some sort of over composition to be, you know, kind of feel like they need to adjust for, but on the basis bottom if information and you know, you've actually got anywhere. that's why i'm like, i'm sorry i'm, yeah, i'm going to jump in over. there has been over there. yeah. so what happens is, what do you do when there is no bait available? what do you do when there's no oxygen available? what do you do when there's a bed available? what the doctor's doing is he's ramped up the street. i do it. you know, w h o cbc, all doctors, there are guidelines when you have,

they've given exact recovery trying to show that this is the exact m g milligram of cd that is needed. you don't need anymore. you don't need any less. and this is the duration of time that it's to be given. but when you don't have oxygen, when you don't have of you don't have beta when you don't have a doctor's good desperate and i have, i myself have seen prescriptions from other doctors where they have given double the doors of senior just to ensure that the oxygen comes out the they don't need a bed, the fever drop, the c p level go down. so here they have been indiscriminate use and i understand way. but i can control that. i can control the window point. he was worn out to join those saying, i think the owner, so the responsibility lies where the power is the greatest. right? so who was the power is that the individual doctor was already in a situation of extreme trauma dealing with patients in

a system that fall apart or does it, is it with our or, you know, scientific institution and are, you know, political leadership guidelines were not updated in a timely manner, which reduces trust in what the government is putting out both the public trust and the medical community trust our state guidelines not so it's not just one political party said guidelines and an interim guidelines. they still can contain drugs like it will mention as it's from my son, which are no longer recommended for regular patients. so suddenly you cannot just say does drugs without telling us what they do go at. so it will make, i think, dr. joyce, would it be better place to do this? if i'm acting as an antivirus or take drugs? what role does it have for my to my sen? yeah. you know, as it's real nice and then doctors, i've seen the antibiotics, they have moved to play and cheating a virus unless it is a secondary infection which comes up after the 6th or 7th day the 1st 56 days.

don't you don't see any, we don't see any of an antibiotic in treatment of the virus and the 1st 5 to 6 providers. the effect of the infection after 7 days to be that is when they pneumonia and they could be detroit infection that can happen. that is when you need an antibiotic not before. that's all right i. so this is a p s k i dealt with in india or you're watching me as we can talk to you to is telling you when you should be prescribing anti virus. you should be if alright, a doctor's hope, i hope time from my book. so many how tight for me, because there's more things i want to show you from our audience who are watching with you and i want to try to squeeze the morning. so interesting question here from 0. could you discuss the misinformation spread? yes, absolutely. so important, i want to do that by chris nash, christian as he's also concerned about the misinformation. a new come off the back

of christmas video comment. let's play it. go ahead, get back to this information is what you're looking for. mission misinformation a leather. we have seen the government use misinformation, beach critical establishment, also seen the government building misinformation so it's got a little dark where a new is right now, but new. i'm still going to ask you for your, for your take on this, because i understand that you were told that you were not allowed to report on. i'm going to use the, the, the public term for this black fungus. and that the information that is not being shared because authorities do not want the information to be shad, doing a 2nd wave of covert 19. what's the problem? is that a new go ahead it looks like a new has

a black out right now because you still hear us. i think so there's a little bit of a thunderstorm, i'll say. alright. delta sonali, you can't you pickup because i know you understand the issues here with the management of a narrative about cove it 19 and then getting out good information to people. it feels like there's some tension between those, those 2 missions go ahead finally. so, you know, i, i seem to understand how signs and evidence based medicine and prescribing the correcting, according to latest medical science is a partisan issue. it should be a non partisan issue. but however, i think governments are struggling to offer some remedy to people. so we still see certain drugs in guidelines, refills, you know, do not be very precise. clear information coming out. for example, we knew last year how important good ventilation is. but that was not really

amplified by the media or by the government. but this here, there is talk of animation, had me spoken about the importance of, you know, fresh air flow, open windows, you know, i, i do believe we could have reduced a certain number of cases. we only focused on distance. and i think it's really, really important not to copy paste things from a more developed context into countries like india, you know, so we copy pasted social discipline, saying recopy, based on the idea of locked downs without an understanding of the social economic context of developing countries and we had a very medicalized response to was offend them, which is not a purely medical issue. so so i think the government needs to really allow the community and the public health community, the medical community to become a voice or for signs for correct information. and not clam down. notices are being

issued with say that nobody can speak about, say, but fungal infection we were talking about without prior permission of the government. this does not make sense at a time when the government alone cannot manage everything. it is an unprecedented situation. they need to collaborate with citizens. they need to engage people. they need to engage exports to, you know, to reach to the public. so, you know, very crude measures to control some sources of information. misinformation are not useful. let me say one more question is one comes from your site and avo jasa is on youtube. and i will is wondering if the politics from the b j. p is impacting how well corona virus is being managed in india over after that. so the question, i'm going to get that to talk to joey to speaking as a medical professional. how is politics either helping or hindering new dot to join?

so i find that is a lot of mixed messaging that happening by the government. and that hinders of that hinders of. busy treatment protocol, number one, number 2. let's start with the vaccination. let's start with the resignation, dr. lead all out. we were supposed to be the largest producer of vaccines and lead, although we started off with the health care workers that started over the above 60 and above $45.00 with the mob disease, et cetera, the prime minister himself to that scene. and that was that i think addressed vaccine hesitancy in a huge rate. he has so many followers here, he addressed the last thing is offensive. but then he lost the plot somewhere in between. because of because of signing a deal with call back later,

because the vaccine could be here to send vaccines all over the world to be from shock for vaccinating our own country. our own countrymen and that's with the 2nd we've up and we should've vaccinated people quickly foster and we should have ordered more pre ordered models. as all the board has ordered, pre ordered, we didn't pre ordered any vaccine doses. so that's when of visual mixed messaging. they can me, oh, they can be they to when the government penzault good to patient holmes, who have tested positive and the this is contained along of course they do contain . busy more tablets, they contain a bunch of meta, but they also contain something on a scholar and i thought to join she can she can give us a lecture on medicine and kind of in 1900 medicine for over an hour. thank you.

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