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When will u give up a hospital bed for someone sicker than u? if assured that when u need it u will get it. This needs 'collective' trust in the system. When 'triage' is not just a sterile academic word
In an oped in todays Hindu I also say (thread) https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/covid-19s-triage-challenge/article34416091.ece
In an oped in todays Hindu I also say (thread) https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/covid-19s-triage-challenge/article34416091.ece
Imbalance between demand & supply of healthcare is not peculiar to India
‘triage’ means that when there are large no of people needing urgent care & limited resources victims r divided into categories based on severity Most severe are treated 1st as delay costs lives.
‘triage’ means that when there are large no of people needing urgent care & limited resources victims r divided into categories based on severity Most severe are treated 1st as delay costs lives.
Few weeks ago an exasperated Mumbai Mun Commissioner said that the system is under strain because people are insisting on Pvt beds.Even as he was complaining, Sachin Tendulkar, Akshay Kumar and Rashmi Thackeray were admitted to large pvt hospitals as “abundant precaution”
triage is not a mechanical protocol insulated from its surroundings. Its wide acceptance and implementation r based on powerful but complex principles of justice and solidarity. We almost don't know what these mean
Serious triage doesn’t only prioritise sickest over less sick. It stops futile treatment for very sick who r unlikely to benefit f. Justice applied in the reverse. Given dominance of pvt sector, especially in intensive care, genuine triage has to involve state control on it
Executing triage in its truest sense is a big collective leap of trust & needs certain social sanction. Needs to be perceived as fair & transparent & a neutral state. But if there was ever an opportune moment in this nations history to muster courage to do it , it is now.
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