Nothing new for Health in Budget
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AAA The State Budget 2021-22 presented by Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac on Friday has nothing new for the Health sector and even the vague promises are likely to remain just that as nothing has been said about the financial allocation required for the same.
Free COVID-19 vaccination for all, an announcement earlier made by the Chief Minister, has been reiterated by Dr. Isaac and is the biggest promise offered from the side of public health in this Budget.
4,000 new posts
Dr. Isaac also makes a mention of new 4,000 posts to be created in the Health Department in 2021-22 for running all 221 Family Health Centres and for fully utilising the new facilities created in hospitals using KIIFB funds.
The vaccine would be later given to police, security personnel and sanitary workers. ASHA workers, anganwadi personnel, medical&health employees in Telangana to get COVID vaccine in first phase | Photo Credit: AP
Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), Anganwadi personnel and medical and health employees in Telangana would be administered the COVID-19 vaccine in the first phase, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said here on Monday.
It would be later given to police, security personnel and sanitary workers, he said. The government of India has identified Serum Institutes Covishield and Bharat Biotechs Covaxin as the effective vaccines.
We have decided to administer these vaccines in Telangana State, he said after attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi s virtual meet with Chief Ministers of various states on the COVID-19 situation and vaccination roll-out and later holding a review meeting here with ministers, officials and district Collectors.
Travails of ASHA Workers During COVID-19 Call for Renewed Focus on Public Health
ASHA workers and other community healthcare workers have experienced extra working hours, loss of pay and social apathy during the pandemic.
ASHA workers interacting during a meeting at an urban primary health centre in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: Jignesh Mistry
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Walking into 2021, if there was one positive to be identified with the large-scale outbreak of a pandemic in 2020 in India, and the rest of the developing world, it would have been this: a primary focus given by most governments and their executive agencies to improve healthcare services and ensure more affordable access of them for large scale populations. This has been done irrespective of the ‘fiscal limitations’ and ‘weak governance systems’ cited earlier as reasons for making healthcare a lesser priority, and an area of investment to be outsourced to the private sector.
Updated Jan 12, 2021 | 13:57 IST
Telangana CM said that arrangements should be made to treat people who may develop side effects after the vaccination. Telangana CM instructs officials to make state-wide preparations for vaccination drive | Photo Credit: AP
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday instructed officials concerned to make all preparations statewide for the Covid vaccination from January 16.
He also said that arrangements should be made to treat people who may develop side effects after the vaccination.
The chief minister reviewed the vaccination programme in the ministers and Collectors conference.
Later, the CM participated in the video conference held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Fighting Covid at the village level
Helping hand Free ration kits were provided to APL and BPL card holders (file photo) - Thulasi Kakkat
Helping hand Free ration kits were provided to APL and BPL card holders (file photo) - Thulasi Kakkat×
How Kerala’s Nochad panchayat coped with the pandemic’s impact is proof of potential of grassroots democracy
Nochad, a gram panchayat (GP) in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, has documented the activities and the coping strategies of the people with remarkable success. The second author worked in close cooperation with the panchayat, which mobilised the fairly large network of functionaries at the village level like the Kudumbashree (the three-tier neighbourhood poverty and women empowerment mission), Anganwadi teachers, school teachers and for this exercise.