COVID-19

No Testing Kits, Covid Centres Shut, Oxygen Miles Away: Rural Healthcare In Covid Times

Tanvi Deshpande
August 3, 2021
53% of the deaths caused by Covid-19 were in rural India
As the pandemic's second wave peaked in May 2021
With a potential third wave now looming,
we visited the remote tribal district of Nandurbar in northern Maharashtra to understand the challenges of rural healthcare
Read our report here 🔗
We are reporting our findings in a two-part series, the first of which
detailed how unprepared Nandurbar's rural healthcare system is to deal with Covid-19 with expired medicines in PHC pharmacies, including injections for adverse reactions to vaccines
Read the first part here 🔗
In this concluding part of the series, we report how these facilities are not even equipped to deal with routine emergencies.
📸 by Tanvi Deshpande