A birthday party, a cricket match, a wedding, an engagement party, and a near-complete disdain for social distancing. Gollala Mamidada, a village of 19,000 residents in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district, paid a heavy price for its continued violation of the Covid-19 lockdown, with two families losing loved ones to the disease. Of the over […]
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All Covid-Designated Hospitals Booked At ‘Full Capacity’ In Hyderabad, What Next?
As theTelangana government allowed private hospitals to go ahead with treatment of COVID-19 patients, most of them seem to have already reached the maximum capacity that they can afford, with the cap on prices. Interestingly, all the Covid-19 designated government hospitals also shown the full capacity and the new patients are virtually trying their fate […]
Messy ‘Covid Battle’ With Increasing Public Unrest Jolts KCR Govt In Telangana
Telangana Chief Minister KCR courts the image of a tough taskmaster who brooks no dissent or incompetence. But Telangana clearly seems to be struggling with the COVID pandemic. He announced a Covid-19 lockdown two days before the central government, on 22 March. He described the move as being in “sarvajana hitam (public interest)”. Telangana had […]
Why ‘Critical Covid Patient’ Unattended By Govt Doctors For Hours At Gandhi Hospital In Hyderabad?
The official apathy towards Covid-19 patients makes the life hell before they get admitted in the hospital the Ordeal began when the Covid positive patient had to first struggle to get an ambulance from a private hospital, and then he was made to wait in the covid designated government hospital. As details shows, Mohammad Zia […]
Post Lockdown, Lakhs Of ‘Telangana Migrants’ In Gulf Await Return
Estimates suggest that post lockdown, around 2,000 migrants from Gulf countries will arrive at the RGIA at Hyderabad every day for the next 2-3 months as all are either fired or lost jobs due to #Covid crisis. Around 7.5 lakh people from the Telugu States, including 3.7 lakh from Telangana, are awaiting their return to […]
The Intricate Dance Of Politics And Power During A Pandemice
Every crisis, man-made or natural, is pregnant with political possibilities and politicians will take policy decisions based on their assessment of how their choices promote their political and personal power. A commonplace adage of the post-Cold War era of globalisation used to be that while ‘all economics is global, all politics is local’. The implication […]
Hyderabad Sex Workers ‘Starving’ In Lockdown Without Income
Hyderabad waits with bated breath for May 7 —the day the extended lockdown is supposed to end. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the virus, has brought in its wake economic upheaval and financial predicaments. For one of the most marginalized communities, that already lives on the […]
Neglected Frontline #Covid Health Workers Need Safety Gear In Telangana
In Telangana, the worst-affected state, nurses, sanitation workers and community health workers say they do not have adequate protection from virus exposure. Fifty-one year old Daisy Rani works as a nurse at Niloufer Hospital, one of the main quarantine hospitals in Hyderabad for admitting and treating Covid-19 patients. Five doctors working here were sent into […]
Is #CoronaVirus ‘Community Transmission’ Started In Telugu States?
Despite the state governments evaluations and statements on deadly #CoronaVirus community transmission, the attack is already kicked off in Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. While Union health secretary Luv Agarwal has been saying every day that there was no community transmission of Covid-19 in the country, Telangana government’s bulletin too has bene saying […]
#Covid Doctors Working Inside Isolation Wards Reveals ‘Exhaustion’ In Hyderabad
A peek into the long shifts pulled by doctors living inside the isolation facility reveals the exhaustion, fears and heroism of healthcare workers across the country as they struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. If the world had not been in the throes of a pandemic, Dr. S Nagarjuna would have been married to his […]