[WSMDiscuss] COVID-19 Pandemic and The Adivasis in India

[Umakant]

Dear Friends

Greetings! The Adivasis (IndigenousPeople) are facing the brunt, isolation and negligence by the State agenciesdue to COVID-19 second wave that has gripped the whole of India. In order tounderstand the situation and why a “New Vision for India” is required, we mustlook at ways through which Adivasis and other marginalized/excluded communitieshave been left to fend for themselves without much of support from the State. 

 

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No MedicalCare, No Awareness Programs: Covid-19 Pandemic Pushed Adivasis Further intoInvisibility

Shreya Basak,News18.com, June 05, 2021 

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/no-medical-care-no-awareness-programs-covid-19-pandemic-pushed-adivasis-further-into-invisibility-3808226.html

 

In and around tribalareas, the health facilities and covid awareness are just not poor but almostmissing. How State failure and paucity of medical facilities have impacted theAdivasis in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. 

 

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An old mistrust of government keepsJharkhand’s Adivasis away from COVID-19 vaccines

Varsha Poddar,Caravan Magazine, May 30, 2021 

https://caravanmagazine.in/health/an-old-mistrust-of-government-keeps-jharkhands-adivasis-away-from-covid19-vaccines

 

Guruwari Jamuda died in Baralagia village in Jharkhand’s WestSingbhum district 11 days after she took a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Thesmall village is home to about two thousand people predominantly from the HoScheduled Tribe.  Sixty five-year-old Jamuda, who is also a member ofthe Ho community, developed a fever soon after she got the shot on 15 April,according to Birendr, her neighbour. The fever did not abate for days. Jamuda’sson took her to the Tata Memorial Hospital in Jamshedpur about 70 kilometresfrom the village, where she died on 26 April. “She was absolutely fine beforetaking the vaccine,” Birendr said. “Her son took his mother to a reputedhospital for treatment but could not save her.”

 

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Pardhis:positive, isolating in huts and broke

Jyoti Shinoli, PARI,May 26, 2021 

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At this Adivasis settlement in Pune district, Covid positive persons are isolating in straw huts, with no electr...
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At this Adivasissettlement in Pune district, Covid positive persons are isolating in strawhuts, with no electricity or water, and sparse rations. Masking, ventilation,oximeters and more have no meaning here.

 

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With Regards 

Umakant, Ph. D 

New Delhi 



 






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