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 effort to contain the outbreak of coronavirus.
2.    China built a specialized hospital [Huoshenshan Hospital] in just 10 days as part of efforts to fight coronavirus. 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 December 2019 AND to save 150 children in June 2019 who died of acute encephalitis syndrome in Muzaffarpur.

Dr KK Aggarwal

President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA