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The Importance of Public Systems

By DALE LUIS MENEZES

Widening roads and promoting the auto industry will not solve traffic hassles; but investing in reliable public transport will. Private schools won’t deliver a good education to all except if the public schools get a boost in infrastructure and better teaching methods. Clanging pots and pans won’t make a deadly pandemic go away; but having an efficient public healthcare system will, or at least mitigate dire circumstances. (more…)

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COVID-19 meets a Casteist Health Care System

By AMITA KANEKAR

Where are the face-masks, gloves, and hand-sanitisers – forget boots and body-suits – for city cleaners and garbage collectors, those who in the current Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ are still working, to keep Goa free of dust and dirt? Where is the water and soap to wash up after work? Nowhere to be seen, and not a word mentioned either by our loquacious Chief Minister or Health Minister, both pontificating about how the state government is committed to protecting people’s lives. But which people? Everybody, or just some? (more…)

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Addressing COVID-19 in a Sick System

By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA

On reading so many different takes on COVID-19, I am confused. I don’t belong to the world of medicine. We live in an age where there are genuinely serious health concerns globally on the one hand, and selective unscientific hyping up about certain virii or diseases on the other hand. And both of these happen at international levels as well as at the hands of the nation state. I was reading an article titled False Alarms and Pseudo-Epidemics: The Limitations of Observational Epidemiology” by David Grimes and Kenneth Schulz, for instance, which pointed out that “all observational research has bias (which can include selection, information, and confounding bias)”. (more…)