Sins of Modi
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1.Fudging data,
2.Too much centralisation.
3.Politicising the pandemic by blaming opposition.
4.Treating the pandemic as a law and order issue.
5.Not consulting scientific and medical community
Underestimated the pandemic: 1. Namaste Trump 2. Failure to screen international passengers, including Markaz visitors. 3. MOS finance told Parliament that the pandemic would not affect economy
Promoting pseudoscience: 1. hit pots and pans at a specific hour, light lamps to drive the virus away 2. immunity boosters. 3. Faith will beat covid at Kumbh 4. Coronil.
Unplanned Lockdown 1. It spread infection across the country. 2. It destroyed economy.
3. No meetings with CMs before lockdown
Arogya Setu a failure 1. Did not help contact tracing 2. Did not make travel safer. 3. Containment zones not enforced.
Double standards: 1. people to follow ‘Covid Appropriate’ behaviour, 2. PM and Union Ministers not exemplary 3. Large rallies 4. religious gatherings including the Kumbh at Haridwar.
PM CARES Fund and vaccines. 1. Dubious and opaque 2. money not used to boost vaccines production or vaccines procurement 3. money not paid for R & D.
The corona vaccination programme is made to appear as an unprecedented achievement by Modi in the history of India.
One has to just open one's eyes and look at the history of this country since 1947 to see the outstanding work done in the country by the visionary @INCIndia Govts.
August 15 1947
* India was the small pox capital of the world
* TB was in epidemic proportions in India.
1948
* BCG Vaccine Lab set up at Kings institute, Guindy, Madras.
* First BCG VACCINE developed in India
1949
* BCG vaccination extended to all schools in India.
1962
* India started National Smallpox Eradication Programme (NSEP).
1973,
* efforts were successful in many parts and smallpox was largely restricted to Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar,
Dear Shweta ji
Thank you for appreciating my education. Yes Immunisation was a paper for my "Preventive medicine" some decades ago, but thanks to you I looked at the Indian scenario again in detail, and assuredly the political cocoon holds a beautiful butterfly. 1/n
The Pulse Polio Immunization Programme was rolled out in India on 2 October 1994, when India accounted for around 60% of the global polio cases. The last polio case in India was reported a decade ago in Howrah on 13 January 2011, and the country has been free of polio. 2/n
National Immunization Days (NIDs) for polio eradication in India were conducted on Dec 9, 1995 and Jan 20, 1996. Children up to 3 yr age targeted and 87 million children covered. The target age was increased to 5 years in the next year and about125 million children vacinated.
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