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Perumthachan
i know it won't make sense to you and you won't accept it, still-
check the study conducted by science department of Delhi based The Wire who conducted surveys with municipal officials, health department officials and officials from the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program across 7 states and UT's: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry. Their detailed report is available online. The conclusion is that 'suspected deaths' is a blind-spot for India. Bhopal crematorium buried 180 bodies in August under covid protocol but the state recorded just 91 deaths during that time. The Wire checked with the authorities and found that they are following instructions from ICMR which is strict on 'which death qualifies under covid-19'. The report has scathed the Gujarat cities of Vadodara and Surat for under-counting deaths under co-morbidity. ICMR has clearly stated in their March guidelines 'the underlying cause of death' and also mentioned what falls under 'borderline cases'.
check the survey conducted by public health foundation of india. that report is also available online. that report has criticised the governments of maharasthra, tamil nadu, gujarat, karnataka and west bengal as the top five states in excluding the maximum deaths due to comorbidities from covid deaths.
check the report by aljazeera which has condemned the indian health ministry and prime minister narendra modi for undercounting deaths in the most densely populated states of india (delhi, bihar, west bengal, uttar pradesh, haryana and tamil nadu) so that restrictions can be lifted to allow economy to prosper. the report criticised ICMR's decision to exclude 'presumptive deaths' expecially in the state of maharashtra where suspected covid deaths do not add in the 'state tally'. Assam has been criticised for not including cases where virus was 'incidental' and not cause of death because they were following icmr guideline of reporting covid deaths only for respiratory failures, pneumonia or blood clots.
check the bbc report which has criticised maharashtra which is the state most badly hit by the pandemic but the deaths double 'only in 40 days' which does not happen anywhere else in the world. epidemologists from india's public health research wing reported to bbc that all states most affected by the pandemic 'are undercounting deaths'.
check the study by delhi based observer research foundation which has reported that 'only one in four covid deaths in the most affected states of maharashtra, tamil nadu, karnataka, uttar pradesh, andhra pradesh and delhi are being counted.'
check the statement two days back by dr prakash jha of university of toronto who conducted survey on covid patients dying at home rather than hospitals in india released his report where he concludes with 'how can india flatten the covid-19 death curve if the central health ministry guidelines does not measure deaths properly?'
check yesterday's issue of business standard where they have criticised assam which maintains India's lowest covid fatality rate of 0.28% only because of under-counting because a majority of deaths are discarded as co-morbid reasons being the fatal reason of death.
check the national herald article which has criticised most of the north indian states for either 'not reporting covid deaths' or for 'undercounting covid deaths' or for 'recording covid deaths under co-morbid conditions of chronic hypertension, diabetes or cancer'. the reason given by icmr for this is that, 'all the tests (rt-pcr, trunat, cbnaat and rapid antigen) could give false negatives; rt-pcr tests which are considered the golden standard of covid-19 testing has only 70% sensitivity'.
check the british medical journal report on the indian covid situation whereby the report has criticised Madhya Pradesh's Directorate of Health Services for 'undercounting covid deaths' in the state but then concludes that the directorate is performing under icmr guidelines. the report goes on to put in detail the covid death undercounting in states like delhi, telangana, maharashtra, west bengal, gujarat and uttar pradesh. the reason stated for the undercounting is 'deliberate and fuelled by the political need for central government to portray success.'
check the washington post report on the official cover-up by gujarat government in modi's constituency of vadodara where, during a particulat time frame 2,000 covid-19 deaths were cremated but the state count rose from just 57 to 60.
check the report by hyderabad based 'doctor's for seva' who have accused the state of 'hiding deaths by not testing enough people and not counting deaths even among covid-19 confirmed deaths'.
check the report by public health foundation which has criticised delhi government for forming 'death audit committees' but the 'fudging of data' is still ongoing.
check the report by University of Washington's Health Metrics and Evaluation Department which has pointed out clearly that 'under-reporting' in rampant in the country where deaths are not counted properly.
your hatred for the kerala government is as obvious as planets revolving around the sun. but, since you proclaim yourself to be the harbinger of covid pandemic consciousness, throw away your anti-left tinted spectacles and open your eyes. see what is happening in other states. it will prove that your claim of kerala inadequately handling the virus is just a figment of your imagination.
and one more thing, a gold smuggling saw the centre send 8 of its agencies to communist kerala while it took 4-5 days for the same centre to send even a single agency to bjp ruled uttar pradesh province of hathras. the babri masjid verdict clearly shows how the centre is using central agencies to blow their trumpets. if kerala is performing so badly in fighting covid pandemic, considering the centre's hatred for communism and their ability to twist and turn central agencies to blowjob them, why is it that the centre has not send a single agency to investigate your so-called claim of 'covid under-counting' in kerala. why has icmr or indian research council not send a complaint against kerala? why has central health minister or national center for disease informatics and research (NCDIR) not raised the issue till now. i will tell you why, the centre cannot do it because the same is happening in other states.
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