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The humanitarian disaster in India has been made worse by a lack of accountability at the highest level in government.
India is in the grips of a health and humanitarian catastrophe, in stark contrast to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s declaration of readiness to fight the pandemic.
Protesters are defying orders to disband and are helping distribute food to hospitals and other people in need.
The Indian government spends just US$38 per person on healthcare each year.
An imperfectly applied risk model led to the devastating situation India is facing today.
COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s hospitals partly because decades of under-investment in public health have left the country with one of the most privatised health systems in the world.
Both at home and internationally Modi is facing intense scrutiny and criticism as the COVID death toll mounts.
As cremation grounds struggle to keep up with the long line of people dying from COVID-19, age-old customs are being pushed aside.
The deep-rooted issues at the heart of the current crisis.
Stories of reaching herd immunity were certainly premature.
After a massive reduction in COVID case numbers and optimism about the vaccine rollout, India has seen a huge second wave of infections.
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Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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PhD Candidate, Fungi, at Kew Gardens and, Queen Mary University of London
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NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health Medicine, UCL
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PhD Candidate, Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies, Western University
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Group Leader, Global Health (Infectious Diseases), University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Human Geography, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in public health, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Economics, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
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Reader (Associate Professor), School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster
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Professor of Microbiology, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore
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PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, International Law, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
