1/n #Covid3rdWave Question is not ‘IF’ Covid 3rd wave will come, question is ‘who’ will it hit. In India the First Wave hit migrants, daily wage workers, industrial workers & every small income earner. Police was at peak of public display of ‘enforcement’. We were not prepared.
2/n #Covid3rdWave Private hospitals and labs testing and treating fleeced public, masks and PPE kits were sold in black. We were not prepared. The Covid Second wave hit middle class & rich. It hit with an intensity to paralyse everyone. Suddenly there was activity all over.
3/n #Covid3rdWave It was hospitals, beds, cremations, Remidesivir, Oxygen, O2 Concentrators and blame game. We were still not fighting Covid, we are struggling with ‘fait accompli’. The deaths jolted us. Armed Forces, Politicians, Industrialists & Bureaucracy! Spared no one.
4/n #Covid3rdWave Black marketing, pushing drugs & looking international for aid. We are still in Second Wave AND we are still not prepared. Do we need to prepare for Covid 3rd wave? Is 3rd wave coming? I do not read predictions of scholars & experts. Today everyone is an expert.
5/n #Covid3rdWave There is no need to predict. I can predict one thing with certainty. We will be more unprepared, disjointed & vulnerable. The Central and State Govts will blame each other. What then is the way out? There is only one way out and we are running in minus time.
6/n #Covid3rdWave We don’t have to wait for Covid 3rd wave management. We have to, in double time review the federal structure for such emergencies. Did constitution fail us? Can health be a state subject? No. Can it be a Central subject. No. The absolute dismal health infra ...
7/n #Covid3rdWave .. stands exposed. Private hospitals with income in hundreds of crores don’t have O2. No Govt hospital has it. There is no sync. This is just O2. List will go in hundreds. How did constitution help? Since when states are divided into ruling party & opposition?
8/n #Covid3rdWave What can we do? No we don’t have to wait for 3rd wave. We simply need to identify each and every weakness exposed in last 16 months. First step- Cut/replace bureaucracy by 50%. They have failed India. Second, get down to work to implement systems for long term.
9/n #Covid3rdWave 1. Make systems independent of political influence. 2. Create brick system in health infrastructure that enables centralisation & decentralisation at click. 3. Announce sops to any & every industry that uses oxygen. 4. Make cluster of hospitals self-dependent
10/n #Covid3rdWave 5. Implement Central coordination which is not manpower driven. 6. Physical Medical Cover to all and not insurance based. 7. MAKE LIFE SAVING POSSIBLE within 200 kms radius of any point across country. 8. Permit treatment to everyone-anywhere within country.
11/LAST #Covid3rdWave I can go on. What I write is what should have happened 70 yrs back. Where are we today? Exactly at same place. Oxygen and Vaccine are political weapons to be used by people elected by us on us! WE DIE! Don’t be scared of 3rd wave of Corona.
CONTINUING... 12/n #Covid3rdWave I always teach and train my subordinates with ‘Think Macro-Execute Micro’ if you have to become a true leader. How does it manifest in day to day life? I will give an example using current crisis. I have maintained there was no #VaccinePolicy
13/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy The continuing chaos on vaccines in India resulting in Adar Poonawala leaving India simply is a result of NO #VaccinePolicy I as a retired Army Officer with vast experience tracked the development of vaccines since last July when ICMR ‘ordered’..
14/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy ... the vaccine to be launched on 15 Aug with an eye on PMs speech from Red Fort!!! I started my ‘Vaccine Policy’ that Central Govt needed to make and publish. Review my thought process and critically examine it. 1. The talk of two doses....
15/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy had started in Dec 2020. 280 crore vaccines were needed by India. 2. With one vial having 10 jabs, 28 Crore vials were needed. 3. @ Rs 25/- per jab, JUST Rs 7000/- crore were needed for free vaccination in India. 3. Target to vaccinate in ....
16/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy. .. entire population on ONE YEAR would require 28 crore vials (10 vaccine doses each) in 12 months or approx 2.3 crore vials per month. 5. Since scaling up required time it could go from 1 crore vials (10 crore jabs) a month for three months
17/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy to 3-4 crore vials (30-40 Cr a month) from third/fourth month. 6. Source of vials was just two till then, Bharat Bio-Tech and SII. Govt should have scaled up their capacity in Dec 2020. 7. Every other vaccine and Indian Pharma industry should..
18/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy should have been taken on board and a broad plan to help them to deliver in flat 90 days after acceptance of vaccine should have been in place in Dec 2020. 7. With logistics and production taken cate of, the software, centres, process etc. should
19/n #Covid3rdWave #VaccinePolicy should have been published before Jan 21. It’s just a policy. 8. Who are front line workers? Till date no one knows. Judiciary of fighting today to be declared as one. 9. What is the criteria for vaccine allocation? 10. How can lockdown &vaccine
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