and adding to the mental health. i'd like to talk a bit about the frontline was the medical professionals doctors nurses medical attendants were literally at the frontline of this crisis and have been for more than a year we were just talking to a doctor from mumbai who was trying to explain to us what they go through on a daily basis what is the impact on medical health professionals such as these. where there is a lot of things id there is a bus fare as well i have seen many colleagues get infected they know that they are taking great personal risk in offering care obviously but you know given the kind of profession they are in they obviously paradise patient care over their personal well being but it does come at a cost because every day when they go back home they're fearful about taking back the infection to their families many of them live with young ones many of them live it and then the family members and it is quite stressful you know we have seen many health providers unfortunately die during this pandemic and you know that many of them continue to get sick and they don't really have

a breathing space because there is a shortage of health professionals so every day they have to go and do work in these kind of stressful situations where it's a matter of life and death on most every minute and to have to take decisions that aren't triads saying or doing do a job and there is not a better way not enough oxygen available can be incredibly traumatic do people have any of the course to help or assistance. well you know it helps obviously to talk about people out also you know reaching out to other professionals a lot of mental health professionals have stepped up and are trying to be available you know everyone's trying their best to be able to be there these are incredibly tough times for everyone but you know the health provider community the larger community of frontline i think everyone is trying their best to try to help out the fact that you know this is a situation which was once this kind of

a sponsor. is unique but also in fact india has barely one psychiatric for every 100000 citizens clearly in the undead equipped to deal with mental health i'm wondering if you think that this has not been a priority for the government in the past. but mention has has been historically neglected globally not just in india but even in india that numbers show that the mental health burden is failing or known very well because it's not been studied adequately many of my colleagues have been looking for many ads trying to come up with data to show how important mental health is entitled then come up with a response as you would rightly think part of the issue is that specialists can supply so if you rely on models which only require psychiatric psychologists to be available it's going to be very difficult to offer mental health care in the

country of india size and population what might be more useful to look at models for that is stop sharing where you can look frontline help us train them to offer firstly mental health care and then been there for the mechanisms that is now evident evidence that this kind of can be very useful for mental health get overs in especially the primary care level. talk to me a bit about the rural areas of india i mean the areas silis least have some sort of mental health facilities that are some psychiatric there what about the urban areas of the country in the villages in the hinterland what is the situation since sort of the situation that. so psychologists can be difficult to find you know you'd be lucky if you have a psychiatric center district level if they're there usually at the district hospital north though or in the health system there are some medical officers who might have been trained profar preliminary but in most cases patients with mental

health conditions either not identified and if they are identified they are usually to foot up where they can be at a loss because not every patient who is identified will go to a district hospital or to a care medical center. the models which we have looked with other colleagues have come up with in southeast more training frontline such as data made by such as a negative social activist activist so that frontline had to look at least are able to identify that was with mental health conditions of our care to they to an extent possible and then they put those who need more specialized care this way you don't end up having to spend send everyone who's identified in the mental health condition to a specialist but you are able to provide care more closer to the community that is not a policy level but just an individual level dr much can people do to tackle their fears and anxieties. lots of things people can do certainly one is just being cognizant of them or define

filmation and misinformation which is being shared having support systems having trusted people they can speak to as well as knowing if they are having persistent symptoms of any kind which might indicate that they have a mental health issue if any that they should go ahead and accept that is a lot of stigma around mental health also which needs to be bill clinton tooting in our communities just in the same way if you would access care for a physical ailment we should feel comfortable seeking tell if we have a mental health issue. on the bond believe a day for the time being but thank you so much for joining us from. thank you for having me. india's 2nd wave is a tragedy that has hit nearly every indian including this one it's a tsunami that overwhelms the country every day in case numbers that's more than 380000 just in the past 24 hours relatives trying to arrange

oxygen for their loved ones trying to arrange beds trying to arrange medical supplies most of the time failing in the process. the fires burn day and night. but delhi's morticians are barely able to keep up these makeshift crematoriums have become a symbol of india's covert 1000 catastrophe. if you will go to this particular good water board this was a parking lot but we got permission to set up an extra $24.00 crematorium sites and now there are so many corpses were running out of firewood. you. coded 1000 has taken an enormous toll on india many died because there was no one to take care of them. for days there had been lines of patients in front of hospitals no one lets the men

because there aren't enough beds or oxygen tanks people feel abandoned. and therefore very very very good to going to them getting nor any number they're given there but nobody is born in number nor do we believe me or my brother it is going on again border and their laws are you know through their little player big brother my father my mother. my father begged me to help him but i couldn't do you know how that feels when your own father cries and all you can do is put him in an auto rickshaw without an oxygen tank. for the 1st 3 days i've been walking from one hospital to the next i've never seen anything like this in my life. the doctors are aware of these catastrophic circumstances but they can't do anything about it one hospital director told d.w.

news the situation is out of control. used to making this yes and getting them in. but i feel so helpless now i get more than. viber. asking for bad. asking for help. many people are scared and want to get vaccinated but there isn't enough vaccine to go around even though india is the world's largest vaccine producer there's not enough for its own citizens. we don't have any more vaccines please leave please cooperate with the police. the prime minister narendra modi has promised help to overburden hospitals. but many say he is to blame he held election rallies despite rising infection numbers. and he allowed huge religious festivals like the coup to go ahead this is

now seen as a super spreader event on a game a common message that it does not matter whether you. need to be or. you don't know where all of that the are being fired. the consequences are catastrophic india urgently needs help. international assistance effort is underway but for many it's already too late. it. is in delhi when you've been reporting through this crisis in fact we just saw your report on mental health just earlier in the program i would wonder how have you through this pandemic. well i like to say that it's optimistic in a sense of i mean in a sense of the dash it from your you stories when you are and people to submission

be are all going to this yacht in the middle of this and a kind of interest that we have been seeing people desperately struggling to so why are you getting done in times past those crematorium go overboard and families are softening and struggling to put on the last rites of the loved ones the let down to affect you so you obviously i have been having my all settings like the issues where she was i don't know i'm a journalist and of there i understand what was the commercial is like now i know how difficult it is so that doesn't make me access to my own health for the health of my loved ones and i like to say that a lot of people of my generation are going to these patients and including people from when you get the genetics and you see a lot of this coming up and over this incident get that incident people are mourning their feelings out there and one bullet which has been coming up and across a lot someone let people know you speak to them about their mental health even though i mean it's almost it's to me about my image and that's right now that it is about things like that what does that lets you do clearly

a very overpowering sense of atlas and that's in the situation that even though people of my generation dances and social media and time to mobilize have their it still and all of our instances but let's not be able to do as much as any parent because clearly the markets are such there is we're not even on the bits of collapse which is almost a last strike not so there is a big sense of that. i wonder if there's also a sense of abandonment but just disappeared sort of what it's like living in the national capital of the biggest democracy on the planet where the federal government has advised people in delhi to wed a mosque even at home. well it is so why i'm here if you will talk to anyone your friends or acquaintances. it is a sense of i mean it is just a circumstance like not because we can see that when you get into. the do not have locks will be conjugated latin americans us up so it's all such

a bike not because there isn't a lot of left so yes a local having the right i'm not as well and you. are lucky the sun about. finding the right medical help at the right time right it's actually going to help see if someone right when you're not aren't so much sorry to interrupt or thanks so much for joining us you've been watching a special edition of your government was on the n.p.r.'s course on about this crisis and thank you so much for watching. to the point strong opinions clear positions an international perspective. it's the ultimate cause of it catastrophe soaring infection hospitals at breaking point a death rate that keeps shattering records are missteps by the government to blame coronavirus india out of control that's our topic on to right to the point.

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