Invisible India's Corona
A few questions that I am struggling with…. Yet another normal day in the hospital. All around the COVID19 fears, and home quarantines, closure of offices, social distancing and loud and clear media messages of prevention and mitigation. As I walked around seeing a few those who have come to hospital, I realized for most who came to Outpatient Department it was yet another normal day. A few quick questions to some of them revealed that, they are there because they need their regular medicines. There is no “Amazon” that delivers their medicines at home! They need to check their sugars, their BP, their prescriptions must be filled. (I put up the picture of the OPD somewhere and there was a suggestion that only essential services should be open!) For this community, what is essential is their daily medicines, and they need a service which will provide that – could we close it down, because the urban well off can afford to get in online? And deprive regular tre...