we have this pending processing victory, which is, you know, how do we do things better next time? i mean, we're talking about the prism talbert often. and this remains confident the crowd to support his plans for the rest of his term in vietnam from out of a better future is coming. we're seeing on the horizon what we want to see an economy growing by 9 percent. one of the fastest growing in the world and this year will surely recover what it lost in the panoramic. argentina is emerging from the pandemic with this economy weaker and a growing pressure to find solutions, both in the corridors of power and on the streets. and showing their al jazeera what a cyrus ah, it's actually half past the hour. this is just, these are your top stories, medical staff in sudan say at least 15 people have been shot dead by the security

forces during another protest against last month, military takeover. dozens of people have been injured by live, fire and t. again, that's according to the central committee of sit in these boxes. russell said our reports now from cotton. you know, in the book capital cartoon. people have started to gather around 1 pm a local time, which is the usual practice for the growth that deliver this protest today if taking place on a working they usually the process based on the on, on weekends. and the reason that they decided to now come back to us on the working days is to look, this is meant for me to look the country. so here this is one of the district, but there are several other places out there that are seeing the whole process because it forces funny interfering people. they're fighting, the dads won't be shooting and it's to disperse them. u. s. secretary of states has

reiterated calls for a ceasefire in the conflict in ethiopia, expressing concerns the war could spill over across the horn of africa. and to me, blinkin made the comments in the canyon capital during the 1st leg of a tour of africa. the philippines accused b jing of sabotaging a re supply mission in the disputed south. china see it says the incident happened on tuesday near the contested sprat's, the islands the chinese coast guard is said to have blocked the philippine ships and fired water cannon. bella roosters set up shelters for migrants and refugees stranded on the border with poland. thousands of people trying to reach the e. you had been living in makeshift camps block accuses minsk of sending them deliberately, which belarus denies. the canadian air force has been deployed to british columbia to help clear blocked roads after flooding in the province. canada's largest port has been cut off. those are your headlines up next. it's context india. i'll have

a summary for you. at $67.00, ah, tens of thousands of children were born into or lived under the iso regime in iraq and syria. now, many are in camps, either orphans all with it. we go to mothers, rejected by their own communities. can you think that people are going to welcome them after that? of course, mom and you documentary here is that chilling and traumatic stories for the children throw stones at me. iraq's last generation on al jazeera 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 us people. in each episode in the series, we're taking a closer look at a specific facet of what has perhaps been the biggest crisis india has faced since independence. the covered pandemic. this 4th and final episode we are examining the

indian health gas sector, but 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 week's episode will be an excerpt from a piece of music created in india through the call with month. this week with featuring when job be in the single people are most news in april and me 2021 indian social media space was flooded with messages like these ah,

is hold . the 2nd wave of covert in india was wreaking havoc and it seemed as though the country's health care system was going under. the 1st of may 2021. these were the tweets being posted by hospitals in the capital new delhi. ah, we have just everyone knows, i'm not feeling good with 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 of end of the corona virus

double charged the spread of covalent india in the 1st half of 2021 health care systems around the world. 2 have struggled with the virus in 2020. there was stories of medics in new york wedding, garbage bags, s p p in the u. k. in january 2021. so we're just, we're deployed to chronically understaffed intensive care was in the same month regions in brazil struggled with oxygen shortages and critically low cost of capacity. however, the crisis in india's health care sector was off of magnitude. the country hadn't seen before. the delta v into loan doesn't explain the seeming collapse of so many hospitals at the most crucial phase of the fund, demik indian health care system. and mrs. mc struck it did have some strength in the sense that the

primary system was established right. independence, adequately the sauce or a fame function it needed to oven primary health care system was still neglected from the very beginning. and then it was reminded that there would be adequate number of doctors and other areas to sell the help desk system. and in between a funded elected system and the private sector. cincy is also a deep dependence on the private sector, which does not proportion of delivery in the country. so what we ended up with is on one hand sub optimal provided public system. and on the other hand, you have the private sector,

which will be on profit driven breathing in a regularly to back compared with many other countries. india, whether the 1st 3 were coded. well, the government implemented the largest locked down in the world, which despite creating chaos due to its sudden announcement helps contain case numbers. what happened after the 1st wave, 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 the the level of preparation that remote in the latter half of the temporary hospitals started can be dismantled. and then we also saw defective state ordination becoming minted and said, because of that idea of reasons,

not the least of which was that because election was off. and the wireless super high rent are traveling across india with the large crowds gathering for festivals . but just gathering and for the election. and at this stage, the variance also gave it a key element of the global covered response strategy has been immunization. dr. india, the vaccine manufacturing capacity is one of the highest in the world and supplies from india. what a crucial factor in the plans put together by many countries. for their own vaccination campaign, i've got to look or just walk. they have marble. got to talk to the coven. 19 vaccines global acts as 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. tweeted this ah, 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 hall, did all expose the vaccine was supplies. we 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 were made to the back along the me there were many edwards, for lack of ation when it came to the production of the vaccine which led to the situation of shortages and goes down, dive at early stages. now the bunch of aspect of the vaccination policy has been

how the government has chosen to add base points in boston. those indoctrination that policy announced in mid april 2021 meant the private hospitals were allowed to purchase and administer vaccine. by august, however, health minister months took mandavi's reported in parliament and only 79 percent of the vaccines reserved for private healthcare companies were being utilized. at the 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 immunization. dr. had made up a remarkable amount of ground, according to government data, at the start of october 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 location and with domestic production capabilities. having increased, india was able to review exporting vaccine strengths to destination dr. which is one of the not just one. it is created. they hide the redness about who they did. that's the nation is the public. another outcome is that urgency of the drive. a lot of health care workers and other kinds of district administrator on staff you've been with us have been in this state and have been working with me for the success of the program. we've also achieved to some degree keep ability or strengthening the teen 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 inequalities in the countries health

care system. overall. in the aftermath, specialists and policy advisors have advocated a boost in state funding. over the past few decades, we have seen public financing of health, stagnated. one percent of the gross domestic product. it has risen now in the recent years. that is still a high out of pocket spending better than a 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 without that on the white bill in the midst of the health system, which is a function. tiffany, whether it's just trucks and supplies, and particularly, will not fall into place. cova devastated numerous countries, but in the us expedient, especially during the 2nd wave,

was one of the most shocking pandemic audios. the corporate impact 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 which are almost 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 admirable record when dealing with the likes of all you small box. why is it then that we weren't able to deal with the pandemic? better this route? yeah, you're right. that, you know, we did tremendous job in dealing with both to spend to make some also and you have get done by the infection. ready but the spend to make the betty betty infection and also very nice and pot off. got

the submittal, my opening question to you as well, given india's expertise and dealing with help. and that makes why didn't india deals with the fund better? if you look at the, you know, maybe of the mix, it's not just india this by 2 words. by surprise. if you look at the economy developed countries look at how many, that's the head, good, how many kisses they had and look at how many came bits which took missing there. so to say that indeed, not handle it is it on? yes, because the to something that was completely and go to the about what and if you look at casualties elsewhere, given the size of the indian population, because with all the number of cases of the size of the population, david said he managed, i mean, secondly, are you know, ana, unaccompanied scaling, gutted, really look at, look at the look at the number of facts editions and has been it will cheat. so in

the perspective, if you look at the, how things have happened and i, we just done, i think we've done and admittedly just submitted your argument that this was an unknown may have been true in the 1st 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 un human development report. 2020 india ranked 155 out of 167 countries on hospital bed availability. according to data by the unit 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. i won't be in foster care for countries. there were within 6 months on the other. yes. so yes, in dak, giving this population and given to call me, has elliptic,

within 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 put in the word discipline, that is an infrastructure you should be taught because in guy be a 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 isn't so successful. and that is that the containment of what could happen in the 3rd week. so. 6 do you agree with mr with those arguments you yes. this was a new wires that it does. shop may be running. it's not bad for that 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 the web. you also saw a new radio check in the ad that you gave was up in june she again back in december. so we ought to have expected the 2nd baby and whatnot. so this is the

one i'm denied me on august complacency that the 2nd phase. now when i say why is that? yes it's true. it's making giant because when did you go 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 the me fancy will that and we have the capacity on the student that was because of the of the care does not be it. can you just ship? not being that in india, it was literally given by technica the was was not because specialist advising the pm advising the makers and it sever missteps. which will even be

being foreseen by any public but well, you know, there was something nice for that and it 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, i'll give it back down. but in that we forget 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 mom, her mind expedients. it was too many of the gets and softening. what have you know? why did we put out we had to get back in the not need you need to me to have them better if only the need to ship run out of space. and if that lesson is not then i would say is experienced is not lost on us. mr mitchell, during the 2nd way, if people want 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, he said be in a degree in his interest to this a legacy shoot you a little opposed to like 2 of the government of the day would be, was kind of fed. you don't look good, make hospitalization a day. i mean it's, it's not like book political update. the government did well enough, not believe the central government. i would say all the state governments today equally rel, in kind of really good to see when you are planning. you would look at the 1st think if 1000 cases that is much you would say probably what can it, what we can go to put, told him, could go 214000. it can go 216000. you don't anticipate that it will go to prepared to put it in a city like billy. then you get the statistics of this, but a 1000000 bow population on it. yes. if you the fact the scanty has inadequate

infrastructure because it's a developing country, it has limited resources. these resources are spent on, i'll take it back. how did we respond to the challenges? the most important issue is there was an oxygen shorted. it was already anticipated that the strength of an oxygen requirement would be that i'm not saying you just the government did this deal pollution government this? no, no, i'm not getting it because i think every government and i think the on the situation, maybe it's the best effort to least attacker the issue was they did. they could have if they were delays. yes, they would be less. they were, as i said, there's more been smoke off, but fiction. yes. things good. always let me read it. but dick versus uncertainty is a little for it. is there was a gaming was i think with a tv. yes. that is it. i take it to mr. dow, 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 are cities actually saw creep up on a daily basis. you know, they, it is the fact and i knew with that you can never hear you. i mean, i had system. can you be expect it's brandon? deductible point. even the best sense and stuff like that to me as was all phone issues off the seeds is largely because the way it does but far more 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 beyond expectations or not if you did it, but we don't want to have the maybe the problem is that god modeling was saw what it done because it was not without. so we didn't have good modeling. and that meant to bring, in a sense, say one box is located and it was not expected. and that's

maybe and that's the reason why we ought to be transparent. and it's a good job because you can only benefit by more data being made available in the public domain. so better research comes in that kind of wandering it's sizes. that's well based on which decision. what it is, julia calling completely inoffensive or so. yes, it was all there. me. i do a fucking is something that is when you get what you did that, what was the foot that, you know, it was not and you know where the what happened we were at the mouth with this is what was going be that, you know, we get some down from november, december, january, every 4 months. that's what we're based off,

which is 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 goes, what is your response to this? i think it is a sauce venom being stood. new york danged, his liver pushing the risk of me that it came to 7 and a half leg bits. and he works. you young times has questioned its government. i believe that's a factual letter. you know, i can verbosity and very easy. i can make any kind of indication. it must be something with this bag braylin's medical evidence. it was backed by something a mistake when we looked at when you look, i would become more trusted. so when you look at our search, you look at us. if with facts and figures, i'm paying for those i p to config that the foot,

not things which could have been anticipated. mr. i come back to you to respond to mr itself. 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 be that that would have been some element of a confusion is because of the nature of the read out, but haven't sent that. there was some, a situation that would have been never that said it had to file more and more faster than we are meeting and discussion sent even in that scene. honestly, i haven't missed a very well. i mean, it is amazing that we've been able to cover $900.00 people with a single shot, but only 25 percent of our population has shot and display prediction. so that is a long way to go and be 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 we taken what we did it and redone it went back last year in november and january 4th. and that seems like it went up there, started and there was so many other steps that would that be picking up at that time? my question to mr. middle 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 up public health sector? i think the piece will be putting again it cheating via d. tolliver's hit a lot of countries. how you could 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 code were being contained, it has given the initial confidence that the design law for fighting up in the managed take up and limit can be success me. so if, if you how the it is,

all of the domain 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 the government and the people of the center. 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 testing for the next up to for song intern jobby titled, ma hummadi, sean slips to pandemic. it was written and performed by the it will very much. thank you for watching contacts india here on out to see the english. i

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