Maybe India’s leaders, policy makers, judges should spend some time visiting a Covid ICU May 17, 2021, 8:56 PM IST
A journalist who has lived all over India and is now based in Bangalore
During the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, quite a few journalists, especially those working for the TV news-channels, would spend an hour or so visiting the Covid iCU of hospitals. The telecasts would show scribes reporting from the nearest Covid ICU, covered head to foot in PPE (personal protective equipment). The scribes would report on how cumbersome it would be for the doctors and nurses to spend the entire shift in PPE without any kind of toilet or tea break.
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The Public Appointments Committee (PAC), meeting on Monday, has eventually confirmed ombudsman Martha Chizuma as director general for graft-busting body the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) after it had earlier rejected her with abysmal scores.
Last week PAC, using a scoring procedure during interview confirmation, scored Chizuma 14.9 which was less than the minimum 17 mark required for her to be confirmed for the ACB job.
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But her rejection did not amuse Malawians, including the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) which threatened a march to parliament on Tuesday, May 18 and Dowa North West Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator and chief whip who gave a notice Sunday that a motion to rescind the decision of not confirming Chizuma be moved in the PAC meeting slated for Monday, May 17.
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SRINAGAR: At a time when people are confined within the four walls of their houses due to the prevailing Covid-19 lockdown, Psychiatric experts have severe apprehensions of people developing mental health issues.
Psychiatrists believe that people staying at home for days together with Covid trauma and without keeping themselves busy can have repercussions on their mental health.
Dr Mohammad Maqbool Dar, Head of the Department (HoD), Psychiatry, Government Medical College Srinagar while delving into the topic says that the there has been subsequent increase in the number of cases related to psychiatric diseases among people ever since the successive lockdowns had to be imposed in the wake of corona virus outbreak.