എം.വി. എച്ച്.എസ്. എസ്.തുണ്ടത്തിൽ/അക്ഷരവൃക്ഷം/WEST IS LOOKING TO EAST FOR SURVIVAL TIPS
WEST IS LOOKING TO EAST FOR SURVIVAL TIPS
The above headline appeared as an important news piece in the Sunday Times dated 12 April 13, 2020.Sandeep Roy reports with certain realistic facts related to the evacuation of the recently spreading pandemic COVID- 19. The US President’s appeal to India underscores how the pandemic has turned the world order upside down, Sandeep comments. He adds that he too was an immigrant to America in the 90’s and that he had finally believed the US as a safe zone for a job and India as a dangerous place swarming with exotic diseases. Alarmingly enough, now parents in India worry more about their children in America than. Here comes the importance of the ‘safe zone’ called India. It doesn’t mean that India is a ‘left and right’ safe haven from the virus. However when compared to European countries, America feels for the first time that India is safest. The public schools in New York city will be shuttered for the rest of the academic year barring online education. In this fearful backdrop, India has struck the nail on the head . She was, in fact, careful in implementing timely lockdown procedure to maintain social distancing . No doubt India was an early mover like Denmark.
Well, lets come to kerala ,Its fight against this pandemic is praise worthy.The Health Ministry has been taking timely preventive measures for curbing the spread this contagise.The graph has started becoming flattened .The European countries have admitted that the measures being taken by India , especially Kerala in this regard are meaningful and resulted-oriented . kerala has thus become a role model for developed countries even! Social distancing is one of the sharp weapons here. The police personnel’s continual intervention checks social gathering essential medicines are abundant in the state .The kerala medical service corporation LTD has done a commendable job by ensuring enough stock in case of eventuality. One lakh hospital beds ,5600 ICU beds are in the ‘ready line up’ . Moreover the state government has taken special care to the needs of all society vulnerable groups. Help Age and She- Taxi teams are ready with drug delivery patients who require services to go to hospitals ,the help age India is pulling its socks up to help them . The agents of she-taxi services receive the calls from the patients and direct these calls to the She- Taxi drivers for transporting them to respective hospital Why not we proud ?
Coming back to Sandeep Roy he felt that India is taking imitable steps to reduce the infection rate. He further comments that the west was open for business as usual unlike Asia with its heavy-handed lock downs . thermal scans and flight bans. India’s mode of fight against this pandemic is being praised by the World Health Organization. Lastly when we emerge out from this pandemic we feel more proud over selves. The west has to definitely look to the East for survival tips from ‘ namaste’ to anti malaria drugs, Sandeep Roy concludes
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