The reality of the coronavirus has stabbed India adversely, and there seems no complacency from the authoritative bodies in supremacy to tackle the crisis. The storyline of arrogance and pompousness of the central government trails back to 2017 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi, through a public podium, accused the state government of catering to the Muslim community by developing more Muslim graveyards than Hindu graveyards. When the nation mesmerized the notion of ” Shamshan, Shamshan,” it seemed like that the central government was adhering to the level of hypocrisy.
The sneering boast about India’s infrastructure was swirled away like a menacing echo across the international newspapers. When the world was suffering, and the prolific nations like the US and the UK were reporting a high surge in infections, the Modi government pursued on with its hubris by ascertaining false narratives about India’s healthcare system. Karma hits back, and that’s what we could learn from the speeches given by the Modi government.
At the pinnacle of the pandemic across the world, he had no words of sympathy to offer. Indians are cloaking to the trepidation of survival and death, and perhaps the Prime Minister’s notion has served him well as the graveyards are working proportionally, handling thousands of deaths every day. The snippets of the speech are still echoing through my mind as it is a complete reversal of what he had asserted for India’s healthcare system. The arguments that pop up are the evidence clear enough for us to have a striking throttle at the central government or other aspects that played their part in the plaguing catastrophe today.
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, a renowned health disease expert in the United States, India’s coronavirus spread could only get curbed if a stringent lockdown gets announced nationwide. When the world is caring about our healthcare system, Modi the magician, known as the vaccine guru, has failed to deliver his promise of containing the spread of infections in India. Considering the fact that the second wave has hindered our progress in the coronavirus regime, a lot of the stick has to go with the greedy healthcare system.
Look around us, we are cladding through some of the toughest times in India’s history. It’s a sobering fact that the central government has not astutely wavered its responsibilities. The news outlets are casting the inculpation on the center, the state, and the healthcare system also needs an envisionment.
The crestfallen part of the afflicting deaths in the nation is bittering, but the wrecking of the pandemic had started way before it stuck in early 2020. A lot of it has to bestow down to the healthcare infrastructure. The monumental pricing by the healthcare system in dire need of oxygen and medical treatment has left us reflecting on an incompetent and greedy bunch of professionals.
The private hospitals have made bulks of revenue from encroaching the citizens, and it is not being hyped around much due to desperate emergencies. They are charging enormous money in funds to procure their affluence amid the rising infections across the nation. The rise of private hospitals has been concomitant with the reckoning down of crucial public health infrastructure. The trends have changed over the past six years, and the public sector has become defunct. Many public servants entitled to serving the disadvantaged citizens have shifted their paths to the lucrative private hospitals for the greed of money and recognition.
India’s Hope is Ebbing Away Due to Malicious Defamation
India’s graveyard of failure has coerced other countries’ officials to seal the borders, and the flights got canceled. The cities across the foreign countries are uniting together for India by dispatching oxygen supplies, concentrators, and other medical caches. What is even the point in acquiring those supplies when the greedy private hospitals will hoist up the stockpile prices, the citizens would get drained mentally and financially.
The situation is not engrossing in the case of the state government. A few days back, I perceived the visuals from one of the largest crematoriums of Delhi. It was heart-wrenching to observe the enormity of pain it is causing to the families. If we are spellbinding the state government for improving the situation ever so slightly, it is validated.
The central government has been exhausting the plea of the states causing further delay, and they have to take on the ultimate accountability. Despite that, some of the bloodsheds of the deceased should get reverted to them. They were an equivocal congregation of the blame game that has prevalent for weeks.
While renowned hospitals like the Ganga Ram Hospital ran short of oxygen supply, Arvind Kejriwal assured them that there are abundant resources. But the situation was far from true, revealed by him during a cabinet house meeting two weeks ago. He asserted that the citizens are pillorying on roads to manage their agony; there’s nothing that could get done until the cryogenic trucks get imported from oxygen manufacturing plants residing in other states. While that’s obvious that the states are dependent on industrial hubs for the supply of oxygen concentrations, the state government could have addressed it well before the crumbling rather than claiming that we have installed measures to contain the spread of coronavirus infections.
The government has tried to divert the criticization to centrally processed agencies, but rather than blaming the other institutions, the parties should have introspection on your hindsight. Whether they misinterpreted the threat of the second wave or deliberately let the citizens suffer is debatable as they kept claiming that the situation is long wailed away in compelling ways.
If we think that the blame only goes with the constitutional and governing bodies, then we are slightly mistaken. As privileged citizens of the nation, we partially have ourselves to condemn as we have let our guard down. The negligence in following the Covid-19 protocols was inevident once the strict lockdown relaxed. People forgot to follow the norms of wearing masks and social distancing. Today’s disheartening scenario has left a wailing impact on our lives, which would get sustained even after the pandemic ends.
The blame game will continue to perpetuate within our nation until a resilient leader across the central and state government steps up. The lack of funding for the healthcare system has crept up the erosion of the pandemic, and it hasn’t served coupling with the political haughtiness. The central government is the prominent entity in the whole dilemma, and they fetched away from the public healthcare system and detailed health as a proliferation of the state government and the private hospitals. It has cracked down India’s state of affairs during the pandemic, and there isn’t a prolific sign that it is getting rendered in the forthcoming times.
