IAS officers from 410 districts- from Arunachal to Haryana, MP, Bihar- red flag inadequate health infrastructure to combat COVID 19

Dibang valley district said that the closest testing centre was 379 km away

Panna district has no ventilator

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Patna has shortage of PPE, masks, ventilators, medicines, surgical gloves, oxygen cylinders, oxygen regulators and disinfectants.

Delhi’s posh southern districts said there is a need to do more testing for people who are suspected cases IO

MP’s Neemuch district reports low availability of PPE kit and N-95 masks and functioning ventilators. Says staff anot equipped to handle ICU cases.

In Assam’s Dima Hasao, there is no ICU or ventilator in government hospitals and there are no private nursing home in the entire district.

In Chhattisgarh, Balrampur, Gariaband, Jashpur, Mahasamund, Surjuga, Mungeli have shortage of basic health infrastructure besides trained staff and equipment.

In Jharkhand’s Dumka, officials said they did not have anesthetic. “Hence, we can't run ventilators,”

Nagaland doesn’t have a single testing centre and is faced with shortages of essential goods due to blocked inter state roads

The story is alarmingly similar across districts surveyed from East Siang, Lohit , Namsai, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh to Haryana’s Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, Kolhapur in Maharashtra and Kulgam in J&K.