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latest headlines on al jazeera up. next is context india. we did get it most hello and welcome to context india. i'm free. the schools are coming to you from bai and context india. we take the time to deliver a consider analysis of this country in politics and as people in each episode in the series, we're taking a close look at a specific facet of what has perhaps been the biggest crisis india has faced since independence covered pandemic. this our 4th and final episode, we are examining the indian health care sector that crumbled under the pressure of the 2nd wave. of course 19. we will be looking at issues of insufficient investment and public health care. the severe shortage of oxygen in many parts of the country and india vaccine policy. i'll be speaking with case which i have our former

secretary of health for the government of india and sudan shumate the national spokesperson of the b g p. at the close of this episode will be an excerpt from a piece of plan demagogue music created in india through the call with month. this week with featuring when job be in the single, the boulevard. in the in april and me 2021 indian social media space was flooded with messages like these. ah, is he? the 2nd wave of colbert in india was wreaking havoc. and it seemed as though the country's health care system was going on the,

on the 1st of may 2021. these were the tweets being posted by hospitals in the capital new delhi. ah, we have just lisa, everyone knows i'm not in for that goes over the next 10 minutes. that would also them out about half an hour after this video message was issued by the executive director of a private hospital in new delhi. 12 patients there died when the oxygen ran out. it wasn't the 1st time during the 2nd wave that a lack of oxygen resulted in depth. the delta variant off the corona virus double charged the spread of cove it in india. in the 1st half of 2021 health care systems around the world have struggled with the virus. in 2020, there was stories of medics in new york wearing garbage bags. s p. p. in the u. k. in january 2021. ready so we're just,

we're deployed to chronically understaffed intensive care was in the same month regions and brazil struggled with oxygen shortages and critically low cost. but your capacity however, the crisis in india's health care sector was off of magnitude the country hadn't seen before. dealt over into loan, doesn't explain a seemingly collapse of so many hospitals at the most crucial phase of the fine demick indian health care system and misses them in stock. it did have some strength in the sense that primary care system was established right. independence. but what do you kinetic quickly, the sauce, and order a pain pain to the functions it needed to of and primary health care system was still neglected from the very beginning. and then it was. busy remind me that there

would be adequate number of doctors in december, but the help desk system and yes, really, between a funded, neglected system and the private sector. watson fi. there is also a deep dependence on the site, which is not the portion of the debris in the country. so what we ended up with is on one hand, a sub optimal care that is provided weekend public system. and on the other hand, you have the private sector, which will be on profit driven breathing in a regular to back compared with many other countries. india, whether the 1st 3 recorded, well, the government implemented the largest lockdown in the world, which despite creating chaos, due to a sudden announcement helps contain case numbers. what happened after the 1st 3,

however, very likely contributed to the intensity of the 2nd wave. it was in the 2nd wave that the biggest challenge was a combination of several factors. first of all, we had some of that would be the level of preparation that remote in the latter half of the temporary us started can be dismantled. and then we also saw defective state ordination because i meant it and said, because of that idea of reasons, not the least of which was that because election was off and the wireless so, but i went to travel across india with the large crowds deserting festivals. but just gathering and for the election and at the state, the variance also gave it a key element of the global covered response strategy has been immunization. dr.

india vaccine. manufacturing capacity is one of the highest in the world and supplies from india, but a crucial factor in the plans put together by many countries for their own vaccination campaign. and i do need a box or he just walked a young man. we got to get the coven 19 vaccines global access, a callback program, backed by the world health organization. and unicef signed agreements with india in august and september 2020 for 200000000 doses of vaccine medication. in february 2021, the director general of the w h will teach it this by media for 2021. india had deleted and sold a combined total of $66000000.00 doses to nearly 100 countries. india domestic vaccination drive in the early months of 2021 had been slow compared to other

countries. but the 2nd wave demanded action. on the 25th of march, india halted all exposed to vaccine. those supplies were needed to meet domestic demand, bringing the immunization network up to full capacity in a short period of time was not easy though. there were many changes that will need to the back. along the me, there were many words for lack of separation when it came to the production of the vaccine which led to the situation of shortages and go down. dive at these pages. now, the controversial aspect of the vaccination policy has been all out. the government has chosen to add base points in boston. those in vaccination that's policy announced in mid april 2021 meant the private hospitals were allowed to purchase and administer vaccine. by august, however,

the health minister months went out, reported in parliament at only 79 percent of the vaccines reserved for private healthcare companies were being utilized. a key reason for the lack of uptake was cost. many indians were reluctant to pay high prices, being charged by private hospitals for vaccines that were being administered for free by the seat. less than 6 months since the peak of the 2nd wave of coven in the country, india's immunization drive had made up a remarkable amount of ground. according to government data, at the start of up to about 2021. 925000000 doses have been administered in the country. in an effort to expand distribution, jones were being tried out to deliver vaccines to remote locations. and with domestic production capabilities, having increased, india was able to review, exporting vaccine strength to vaccination drive, which is one of the, not just one, it is created,

they hide that the redness about the nation is a public. another outcome is that urgency to drive a lot of health care workers and other kinds of district administrator on staff you've been with us have been enlisted and have been working with me for the success of the program. we want to achieve to some degree, keep your friends mean the chain for distribution of axioms, while the scale and strength of india vaccination work has been noteworthy. the 2nd wave expose the chronic under investment and inequality in the countries health care system. overall. in the aftermath, specialists and policy advisors have advocated a boost in state funding the bus to the kids. we have seen public financing of health stagnate around one percent of the gross domestic

product. it has risen now in the recent years that is too high out of pocket spending, that number of people resulting in quality. so we do need much help financing at least 3 percent of the g d p. as somebody financing these are that on the white missile system, which is a function of me, whether it's just been trucks and supplies and particularly to help us not fall into place. cova devastated numerous countries, but in the expedient, especially during the 2nd wave was one of the most shocking pandemic audio. because in fact, both in the shot and the long term will be significant, especially so in the house. and so i'm discussing the challenges in the faces with case a just from a secretary of health for the government of india, and so on to middle national spokesperson of the b g p. welcome to context india.

my 1st question is to the both of you, india has an ad political record when dealing with the likes of polio small box. why is it then that we weren't able to deal with the pandemic? better this route? yeah, you are right. that, you know, we did a tremendous job in dealing with both to spend the mix and also and we have done ready by the infection, but the spend to make the betty betty infection and also very nice. and nobody bought off got this submitted my opening question to you as well, given india's expertise and dealing with health. and that makes why didn't in your deal with the fund better. if you look at the, you know, maybe of the been gimmick is not just india the spend up to the entire words. but

the price. if you look at the developed economies developed countries look at how many that's the head, good comedy kisses. they had a look at how many came bits which took missing there. so to say that india did not handle it, is it on? yes, because the to something that was completely unknown to the guy was and if you look at junk, actually it's weird. given the size of the indian population, because really all the number of cases of the size of the population, david said, he merged, i mean, secondly, are you donna on a competitive scale indented validity? look at, look at the look at the number of explanations and jasmine it will cheat. so in the perspective, if you look at the, how things have happened and i, we just don't, i think we've done and admittedly just submitted your argument that this was an unknown may have been true in the fust wave of 2020, but in the 2nd, maybe 2021. we had a very clear idea of what this fight us was and how it moved around. and let me,

if i may please call out some statistics according to the you in human development . about 2020 india ranked 155 out of 167 countries on hospital bed availability. according to data by the union health ministry. march 17 2020. we had one docked up on 11600 indians. the statistics show that we could have been better prepared if our health care was stronger, which it was not mr. mitten. so i did do 2 different teachers. jesse one is the infrastructure of the country being 1st to cover countries. there were moved in 6 months on the other. yes. so yes, in the ag village population and given it to call me, has it leaded, missing the infrastructure, been loaded? i don't that. the issue is, how did we deal with the 2nd week? i mean these up proportions which nobody in the world anticipate that is an infrastructure you should be taught because in good be good looking. he currently has its limitations. but looking at the infrastructure which was available and

looking at the vaccination, which has been the vaccination program as it's a successful and that is that the containment of what would happen in the 3rd week . so do you agree with mr. with those argument, him have to disagree. yes. this was a new virus that it does very shocked me. and it's not that bad back and much wants to beg for the checking. the status is of course, on given the fact that's not done yet, you've gone to be won by be also saw a new radio or add that you gave was up in july. again, it's a backlash in december. so we ought to have expected the 2nd wave and walk out. so they did, there was, i'm denied me a lot of complacency that the 2nd phase. now when i say why is that? yes, it's true. is making giant dodgy because when people neglect

over the last 77, you know, what about from 97? you got the amount we spend on the so me that you used to be. but one reason why you, me fancy will that and we have the capacity of august to do better was because of the care does not. * be it, can you just ship not be in india, it was given by technica the was was not because specially advising the pm as i think the makers and seen it sever missteps. which will even be half being foreseen by any. we can't express. well, you know, there was some nice for that and this is not what i was about months made by. when did you get me? does that when you see that it's

a nice he looks back to that, don't give it back down. but in that we get that we need to see what happens again, but that adds up. why as a point, i would like to say that, that we need to be more ambler, i've experienced it too many of the gets and softening. what have you not? why get people out? we have the capacity and the not need. you need to me to have them better if only the need to ship one out it's best. and if that lesson is not, then i would say is experienced is not lost on us. mr. metal during the 2nd wave, people won't just dying of cove. it. they were reportedly dying off a shortage of oxygen and a shortage of hospital beds. what responsibility does the central government bear for that? you know, as a sig, be in a degree in his interest to this, a legacy issue, little opposed to the government of the day would be, was kind of fed. you don't work the mc hospital regular day. i mean it's,

it's not like putting up the gum and did velander not bully the central government . i would say the state governments today equally rel, in kind of really to see when you are planning. you would you look at the 1st thing, if 1000 cases, that is much you would say probably what can it, what we can go to put holes in can go 214000. it can go 260000. you don't anticipate that it will go to prepare to put it in a city like really when you give the statistics of doctors, but a 1000000 bar population on it. yes, it is a fact. this country has inadequate infrastructure because it's a developing country. it has limited resources, these resources, i spend the order on, i'll take it back. how did we respond to the challenges? the most important issue is there was an oxygen shortage because nobody anticipated that the strength of an oxygen requirement would be that i'm not saying you just the government did this, the obligation government this?

no, no, i'm not getting into that at all because i think every government and i think the on the situation, maybe it's the best effort to least, becca. the issue was they did, they could have if they were delays. yes, it would be less. they were, as i said this more then smoke off, but yes, things could always have a bit of everything. but dick versus infinity is a for what i think would be a treatment. yes. that is it, that take it to ms route, who has worked with the health ministry for over 2 decades. mr. out, if you want to respond to mr. mr. with those point that it was no way to predict the number of cases that our cities actually saw creep up on a daily basis. you know, they did the fact and i knew with that you can never hear you. i mean, i had system get on you b expanded are going to need up to

a point. even the best chance is done like you to be asked was all so they should talk to the steeds is largely because the way it does, but far more is, is that their system? well, yes, it seems that you would never expect the kind of demand for oxygen that came up before it. it was made beyond the beyond expectations and that'd be but we don't want to be ready. the problem is that god was late was so what it done because did not work out. so we didn't know what modeling and that went to bring in the complex and saying they won't get back if it is located. that's why d and b you was not expected. and that's maybe, and that's the reason why we ought to be transparent and give the job because you can only benefit by more data being made available in the public domain. so better research comes in, the kind of one thing it says is that based on which decision?

what date is julia calling completely inoffensive or so? yes, it does. oh, well, i mean, i do a fucking is something that, that you're not as long as you get what you did. that's what was the effort that, you know, it was not and had to be aware of what happened. we were at the bed like you are not. this is what we want to document that we know we get something down from november december again, we can do the full month we. that's what we're based off of the submittal question for you, and i'm reading out of the new york times dated september 14 2021, which said senior officials from the government forced scientists that leap institutions to downplayed the threat of coven, to prioritize. mr. moore. these political goals, what is your response to this?

i think if you could give sauce, then m b student the off danger. his liver pushes the risk of me, that it came to 7 and a half like bits. and he works. new york times has questioned its government. i believe that's a factual letter. you know, i can verbosity. i'm very easy. i can make any kind of an issue. it must be something with respect braylin, but it delivered and it was bad. but something a mistake when it, when you don't becomes more trusted. so when you look at our search, you look at our service with facts and figures. i'm going to look and see that the fund lot things which could have been anticipated. mister, i come back to you to respond to mr. whitfield. do you also believe that the government did a fair job in making those decisions? you know, i wouldn't want to get into this blame game. i do feel that even the best of luck

to you, but that that would have been some element of a confusion is because of the nature of the fan reach out, but haven't sent that. there was some, a situation that would have been never that said, if they had to file more and more faster than we are making our discussion, even in that same policy, i agree with you, but i mean, it is amazing that we've been able to cover $900.00 the single shot, but only 25 percent of our population has shot to display prediction. so that is a long way to go. and we would have a much better the previous ambition of the prime minister to have a lot of vaccinate it by december. well, let me get, i had me take a look what we did it every done it way back last year in november and january 4th and the 2 backs in florida. we went up there, started and there were so many other steps that would that be in and taken up at

that time. my question to mister misses, of all of the decisions being needs by government. now do you think we are adequately prepared for the thought of anything else that might hit our public health sector? i think the piece will be putting again, it's cheating via d. tolliver's hit a lot of content holligan's affecting, engaged for everybody to see. and the reason why it has been contained is largely because of the vaccination program, which the country yes and the ticket. i would also say that because of the per, we're been content. it has given the initial confidence that the design law for fighting up and take up and limit can be successfully sold. if, if you have the it is all a bit of delay should be good. the content sean, and i may be optimistic, guy, derby lessons, which are this unexpected go head to a non disease has. so given the initial build those lessons, i mean,

well understood when they learned and becoming done, the people of the center. okay. thank you both for speaking to a saw and for giving us your time. and finally, there are multitude of artists in india who created works through the long months of the pandemic. we wanted to feature some of the very languages they walk in and the perspectives say, bring this week, we're closing for the next up to for song infant jobby titled, ma, hummadi, sean slips to pandemic. it was written and performed by the will very much. thank you for watching context india here on our to see the english i with

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