: Covid-19: As the third wave looms, how prepared are the health centres in rural Maharashtra? #IndiaNEWS Farmworker Bildar Pavra has brought his six-year-old daughter Neeti to the Telkhedi primary health

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Covid-19: As the third wave looms, how prepared are the health centres in rural Maharashtra? #IndiaNEWS
Farmworker Bildar Pavra has brought his six-year-old daughter Neeti to the Telkhedi primary health centre at Akrani in northern Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district to get an infected boil treated. She is running a mild fever, and he too needs to have his eyes checked.However, the family has to return home, a half-hour walk away in Atharipada, disappointed. There are two doctors at the centre and neither is available. An attendant offers Neeti paracetamol to ease the fever though he is not qualified to medicate. Doctors are never available at the health centre, complained Pavra, and neither is its ambulance. All his daughters were delivered at home and one died in a drowning incident.Bracing for third waveIt is the third week of June, and the Covid-19 second wave is waning in Maharashtra, but the rise of more infectious variants and a possible third wave could put its rural healthcare system under severe strain again. But the Telkhedi health centre showed few signs of being prepared to handle Covid-19, or even more routine medical needs such as Pavra’s.The Union health ministry’s standard operating procedure on Covid-19 containment and management, released on May 16, has special guidelines for peri-urban, rural and tribal areas. These guidelines should apply to Nandurbar, a predominantly tribal district. The standard operating procedure...Read more

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