{"id":105971,"date":"2021-05-11T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=105971"},"modified":"2021-05-11T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:10:51","slug":"solving-present-health-care-crisis-with-lessons-from-green-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/solving-present-health-care-crisis-with-lessons-from-green-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Present Health Care Crisis With Lessons from Green Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis:\u00a0<\/strong>India is facing a severe shortage of healthcare infrastructure. But, this is not the first time. India has already tackled a food shortage which was worse than this during the 1960s by the green revolution.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India is witnessing shortages of almost everything that is needed to treat COVID-19 patients. Such as hospital beds, drugs, ventilators, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reason-behind-covid-vaccine-shortage-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaccines<\/a>, and, above all, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-issue-of-medical-oxygen-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical oxygen<\/a>. Many countries such as the US, the U.K., the European Union, and even China offered <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/foreign-aid-to-india-centre-faces-questions-over-its-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help to India to tackle the second Covid-19<\/a> wave. This situation resembles India from the Mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The Situation of India during the 1960s:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>India faced a<strong> severe food shortage after facing two consecutive years of drought<\/strong>. After that, India forced to accept US aid. It is a point to note that, India at that time neither supported USSR nor the USA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>President Lyndon, send food to India by the shipload<\/strong>. So that India can keep the ship on a short lease\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Though it was the worst situation, the response of Indian leadership was exemplary.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, and others brought the scientific and bureaucratic communities to debates. Especially to bring a <strong>quantum leap in food production<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The debate turned into action very soon. Within a few years, India <strong>achieved Food security<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>No one imagined that India from such a dreadful situation will achieve food security this fast.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Green Revolution<\/strong> stands out in Indian history even today. It is the display of extraordinary accountability of political leadership, combined ability to resolve an issue from bureaucrat and Scientific community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Advantages for present India vis-\u00e0-vis 1960s:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>In March 2020, India faced a similar 1960s problem on health infrastructure. To improve the medical capability and delay the Covid-19 spread India imposed lockdown at very short notice.<\/li>\n<li>But India has certain advantages at present when compared to the situation in 1960. Such as,\n<ul>\n<li>At present, India has a\u00a0 better <span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">industrial base, compared to the 1960s. So, India needs some time to <\/span><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">ramp up hospital beds, ventilators, and oxygen supply.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Similarly, certain parts of India actually have a surplus of oxygen. They can help to fulfill urgent demands.<\/li>\n<li>India has an enormous foreign exchange reserve at present. This is not the case in the 1960s. So, India was in a better position to import some crucial medical inputs such as vaccines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Suggestions:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inter-State variation in death rate is directly related to the amount of health spending<\/strong> with respect to the state domestic product. Similarly, the health infrastructure of the country is also important. So, to avert any future crisis States have to<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> increase the level of spending on health<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>India also witnesses a hike in Food prices during the pandemic. This denotes that there is a disruption of supply in between in the supply chain. This will be further impacted due to various State-level lockdowns. To avoid this, <strong>PM has to interact with the farming community<\/strong>. This is an important lesson for India from the mid-sixties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GL18ILO2O.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8PgwnvYNlO\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-import-medical-oxygen-to-cater-demand\/\">India to Import &#8220;Medical Oxygen&#8221; to cater demand<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;India to Import &#8220;Medical Oxygen&#8221; to cater demand&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-import-medical-oxygen-to-cater-demand\/embed\/#?secret=zbE8QNpIGM#?secret=8PgwnvYNlO\" data-secret=\"8PgwnvYNlO\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0India is facing a severe shortage of healthcare infrastructure. But, this is not the first time. India has already tackled a food shortage which was worse than this during the 1960s by the green revolution. Introduction: India is witnessing shortages of almost everything that is needed to treat COVID-19 patients. Such as hospital beds, drugs,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/solving-present-health-care-crisis-with-lessons-from-green-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solving Present Health Care Crisis With Lessons from Green Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310,9],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-105971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704790879},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}