India's social inequalities are reflected in coronavirus care

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While India’s leaders have promised coronavirus care for all who need it, treatment options are as stratified and unequal as the country itself.

Mass screenings and quarantines have helped contain the coronavirus in Dharavi, home to 1 million people.Though India has managed to halve its poverty rate over the last 15 years, some 176 million people still live on less than $1.90 a day, and experts say the pandemic is shining a spotlight on the country’s vast inequalities in areas such as employment rights and healthcare.

At Max, one of India’s biggest private hospital chains, daily rates for coronavirus treatment range from about 25,000 rupees for a bed in the general ward to 72,000 rupees for a bed in the ICU with a ventilator. For those in need of isolation — say the spouse of a virus patient — the Delhi state government has ordered a slew of hotels to convert rooms for the job. Room prices, which include daily care, cost about 10,000 rupees a night — again, a sum out of reach for most people.Dr. V.K. Paul, the head of a government committee on medical emergency preparedness, said that the perception of private hospitals as better was an “overgeneralization.

 

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This is bogus article. Social stratification is not written on forehead and nobody asks about it.

Wow! US treats all on equal level, whether moneyed or not moneyed.

In the country, even the surname is considered noble or low, and no other proof is needed at all, they are called customs or religious traditions.

We did not need a pandemic to expose India's social inequalities. They've been there

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