Dear Hon Prime Minister. I am writing this thread from my Covid positive ICU bed in Mumbai and I am stable now but I didn’t start here. My symptoms developed in my little village high in the Himalayas. I have some points for u to consider And so here is one more thread 🧵
our little village in Munsyari Block of Pithoragarh district is a small place. 8000 folks in a cluster of villages. Let me tell you this virus has now reached even the remote glacial base villages. How did it get there ?
Awareness/Biases/Beliefs: You have got to get your act together on communication. Our healthcare system suffers from poor infra but also from anchored biases about how our poor & rural folk think of healthcare -something expensive, something to be avoided and something that kills
Change this first. You have to create faith, belief in science & healthcare. It won’t be easy but without this neither will u beat covid and nor do u have hope in ironing out India’s healthcare system issues.This fear against healthcare facilities makes people NOT report symptoms
Correct your Protocols: My infection came because my staff’s wife was found asymptomatic in a testing camp in the village thru Rapid antigen, but tests results for the same was given 2 days later. In those two days the staff went about unaware & passed the bug to me.
