The health of India's healthcare sector | Context India

In the final episode of Context India, we examine how the Indian healthcare sector crumbled under the pressure of the second wave of COVID-19.

We speak with Srinath Reddy, the president of the Public Health Foundation of India, and Malini Aisola, the co-convenor of the All India Drug Action Network, to understand the issues of insufficient investment in public healthcare, the severe shortage of oxygen in many parts of India, and India’s vaccine policy.

Host Faye D’Souza also discusses India’s healthcare challenges - in the short and long term - with Sudhanshu Mittal, the national spokesman of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Sujatha Rao, the former secretary of health.

We close with an excerpt of a Punjabi song by artist Vipul Verma, titled Mahamaari which translates to ‘Pandemic’.

[factschicken]

Al Jazeera so obviously it will be negative regarding India. But India did fantastic during the first wave. Also made vaccines for the whole world. However the 2nd wave in India is unique to anywhere else in the world as it was caused by the double mutant.

The double mutant is over 50% more transmissible and can evade vaccine-induced immunity. Forget any Politian, even WHO could not anticipate this huge rise in numbers.

[ansh_u_r]

This channel gives so me cheap happiness to their Muslim ummah who are jealous of India.

[amanjaiswal]

The dependency on private hospitals is huge while public health system especially in urban areas is ill-equipped at the moment.

[emandas]

Al-Jazeera show Brazil covid cases there also same.

[thedramuh]

Amazing how at 5:34 you are talking about the "religious gathering" and showing snippets of a gathering and elections that took place in 2021 but not about 2020 Tablighi Jamaat COVID-19 hotspot in Delhi when COVID was in full swing!!!

[amanjaiswal]

India's health care system has two sides. 1) brilliant private hospitals and private healthcare set-up that is mostly unaffordable to majority of the population 2) inadequate urban public health care system. Neglected and low financial support.

[sneha-ujfx]

Indian 2nd wave came in March and April. Its november now and India has one of the lowest per capita covid cases and highest number of vaccination doees given

[psm]

QUatar govt not given payment of poor workers used in to built stadium.

[narzary]

I feel very sad to mental illness people suffering due to poverty and bad health care system in India.

[somenathpaul]

Education and healthcare system must be the base of a nation. But surprisingly India's all governments smartly avoiding their duty to improve it.

[DavidMorris]

I would love to see a regular, permanent series on Indian politics. It's a massive subject that the wider world doesn't know too much about.

[amanjaiswal]

India's vaccination drive has been a success and it was expected from the beginning as india is the single largest producer and developer of vaccines but the public health care system was bound to collapse in a serious outbreak and it nearly did. It's high time that budget on public health care system must be increased.

[rahulborntobewild]

Many people in Italy with 10X money for health care crumbled.

New York Times job advertisement came out as "Looking for someone ready to criticize Modi"

Qatar's propaganda is the same. They won't talk about the current infection situation

[SufiyanAlam-yo]

Very said time to COVID time this time is open in health care system and health ministry

[cflalrindiki]

Accepting failure is an important step to success.

[SassDi]

There is nothing called public healthcare in India neither public awareness neither People with Public health degree gets recognised nor do they get jobs in India !!!!

[jagmohannegi]

Which health system of the world didn’t face challenges during Covid crisis. Most advanced economies like the US and France were under deep stress and panic. Unlike in other nations, our private healthcare system in most cities, especially in small towns, took the crisis as a time to make money. A false shortage of beds to gain more profits from people under panic became a norm. Being someone associated with healthcare, I give full marks to the government across the country for their handling of the crisis. Only fact is private system didn’t rise to the occasion.

[khoundoker]

India's healthsector is weak yet to many Bangladeshies, Indian healthservice is a dream. such worse is health system of Bangladesh, worst health sector in the entire world. Millions of Bangladeshies every year run to India for health services. Al Jazeera should do a report on how Bangladesh is becoming a failed state.

[mahendradhanushreddy]

Heyi how can this promote your radical Islamism ??
You want to change the content

[khushbooagrawal]

Eastern part of India especially Bihar has horrible health infrastructure