Temporary hospital and beds made by China to tackle corona can be the answer to tackle Kota and Muzaffarpur like children deaths in future

Temporary hospital and beds made by China to tackle corona can be the answer to tackle Kota and Muzaffarpur like children deaths in future

Dr KK Aggarwal

President Confederation of Medical Associations of Asia and Oceania, Heart Care Foundation of India and Past National President Indian Medical Association

India must learn how to tackle crisis from China the way they are managing coronavirus and bird flu.

1.     Chinese authorities-imposed lockdown measures on ten cities in an unprecedented effort to contain the outbreak of corona virus

2.     The china built a specialized hospital [Huoshenshan Hospital] built in just 10 days as part of China’s intensive efforts to fight corona virus. A second facility with 1,500 beds is also being opened.

3.     As severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, spread in 2003, a facility in Beijing for patients with that viral disease was constructed in a week.

In India in five days the Army fixed and handed back the collapsed foot-over bridge at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in 2010.

Then why India never thought of building makeshift ICUs to save 100 infants who were admitted at Kota’s J.K Lone hospital and died in in December 2019 AND to save 150 children in June 2019 who died of acute encephalitis syndrome in Muzaffarpur.