Rural India it won’t be wrong to say that it is a home to 65% of the population residing in india, is ravaged and devastated by COVID-19 like no other region. At first, they were safe from the primary wave, because it mainly concentrated in urban areas in India. However, if we talk about those people,they began fleeing to rural areas, bringing the virus with them.

 

 

If someone in a very country were to contract COVID-19, there’s a high chance that there was no nearby hospital for them. 31% of rural Indians should travel over 30km to urge to those hospitals.

Even once they do arrive, some don’t even have doctors present or drugs available to administer, leaving it to any relatives of patients to shop for drugs while the hospital calls a doctor, and whether or not all of this happens, the patient may die before the doctor even arrives.

 

The first issue for healthcare in India is that the sheer distance that an individual must travel reach a hospital.if we talk about Today’s scenario,the rural India requires over 9.8k health facilities for its people. People must travel unreasonable distances just to induce treated. If they are doing reach a hospital, they’ll not provide much help.

 

 

 

Doctors are an important a part of healthcare and without them, their people are helpless. Unfortunately, this is often the case for thousands of Indians in rural regions.

There are vacancies for 3,880 doctors and a shortage of over 12.3k doctors, which could be a 64% shortage of doctors. However, doctors are still useless without their equipment and medicines to use.

 

 

Doctors are cognizant of the risks the COVID-19 poses. because of this, most want protection from the virus as they treat their patient. Doctors in areas like Gopalganj aren’t supplied with necessary protective equipment and are susceptible to COVID-19.

They fear infection and thanks to this, they’ll not concentrate on providing healthcare to the most effective of their ability and need minimal contact with their patients.

 

Another issue is that the lack of facilities and materials the doctors of hospitals must work with together with the dearth of proper training. One example of this can be Bihar receiving ventilators to use. However, Bihar couldn’t use the ventilators because it lacked professionals who were trained to use ventilators. Hospitals are being overfilled and are often over maximum capacity.

These hospitals don’t have enough beds to produce to patients must treat them in any area available(such because the ground, bathroom, and outside). In India, only 32% of beds in government hospitals are in rural India. Even further, for each 10k people in rural areas, they need only three beds to share among themselves, showing how unprepared rural India was for an endemic.

 

In rural India, thousands and thousands of individuals are dying. Although urban areas have the next amount of cases, rural areas have more deaths. There are two central causes for this. One cause could be that the rural India’s health surveillance is poor.

This ends up in their inability to accurately track the amount of cases. because of this, the quantity of cases and deaths that rural India has been much more than the recorded number. With more funding, rural India may have a stronger chance of tolerating and eventually overcoming Covid-19.

For now, rural India lies helpless because it is attacked helplessly by the disease.