India’s rank in the Global Hunger Index worsened from last year's 107th place out of 125 countries, coming in last for child wasting. Only countries like Mozambique, Afghanistan, Haiti, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia are worse than India. The Indian government, however, has dismissed the findings, arguing that the GHI report is methodologically flawed.
May 6, 2021
As India is ravaged by a crippling Covid-19 wave, members of the Indian diaspora are struggling to find ways to help. One group among them is especially distressed: doctors.
Physicians are one of India’s most prized exports, especially in the US where they make up 20% of all foreign-trained doctors. Together, Indians and Indian-American doctors are the most represented non-white group in the medical profession.
With the situation in their home country or ancestral land continuing to worsen, Indian doctors in the US find themselves in the situation where they have the skills to help, and yet are unable to do so. ”It upsets me a lot because I think ‘I trained to be a doctor and I am away right now’,” says Ramya Pinnamaneni, a doctor from New Delhi, India, who is a researcher at Harvard School of Public Health.