Kerala Model in the Covid 19 Fight – Burning Issues – Free PDF Download

• The secrets of success: readiness to deal with problems; a strong experience of past epidemics; close collaboration between nearly 300 thousand volunteers and the government; no struggle between central government and municipal and village authorities.
• The COVID curve in Kerala is flattening.
• Every day, for a week now, the number of recoveries has exceeded the number of new infections.
• The recovery rate in Kerala is nearly 50 per cent while the all-India average is around 11.
• While the mortality rate among the infected is 5 per cent in Kerala, the all-India average is 3.4 per cent.
• The transmission rate of a primary carrier is 6 while in Kerala it is only 0.4.
• The first three cases of Covid 19 in India were reported in Kerala and were 3 students who returned from Wuhan. Since then the state was higly on alert. But, the flow of patients steadily increased .
• Kerala, having prior experience of Nipah virus, acts with a systematic way once the disease is identified in a person. It starts from preparing the route map of the patients
• This kind of identification, isolation and the hospitalization is now enhanced through a web application. This app connects all those who are involved in fighting against Covid 19, from the Doctor to the Ambulance driver.

• Doctor can identify where ICU ventilators are free or the driver can understand on real time where the isolation bed is free in the nearest place.
• To fight against the non-adequacy of the available hospital beds, the Government immediately thought of converting unutilized train wagons into isolation rooms.
• It had been already implemented to a quiet good numbers beds. Then, students hostels of each district and provinces were identified and controlled by the local Health inspectors and calculated the total capacity of convertible isolation beds.

• In the same manner, the Government of Kerala formed immediately a Social Volunteer Force (Sanndhasena) which saw a registration of 292851 people aged between 18 to 65 (mostly between 20 to 50).
• The whole group is enforced in 5 different activities and coordinated by the Local Self Governments and by the District Head Quarters. These volunteers are the driving force of “Community Kitchens” who distribute daily meals to the aged persons and those of real in need during the locked down period.
• In Kerala, very catiously, these migrant people from West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar etc were called “ Guest Workers” and not by their origin. A dignity had been granted to them though different groups among these workers protested to return back to their own state.
• Until the train conveyance is resumed, these workers will continue to stay over in different cities of Kerala, but with the whole support of the government from the food to the common televisions, indoor games etc.

• Kerala is a model to other states in way of execution plan against the outbreak of the virus as well as the treatment extended to those who have been tested positive.
• The public health care system of Kerala from the Primary Health care centres in the Local Government to the Taluk Hospitals to the Medical Colleges, follow very specific protocol to offer the support for creating awareness, prevention and cure against Covid 19.
• Kerala is preparing for the next challenge, the outcome of which will determine the result of the war against COVID.
• Lifting of the lockdown is going to result in an influx of returning migrants from foreign countries and other states.
• Hundreds of thousands would have to be quarantined, tested and, if positive, treated, ensuring there is no secondary spread.
• State authorities have already identified accommodation and other facilities for more than two lakh persons.
• The Aardram Health Mission was launched with a focus to transform the PHCs into family health centres.
• Distinctive feature: There is also the distinctive flavour of Kerala — mass participation in preventive and palliative healthcare.
• Training to health workers: The morale of health personnel has been exceptionally high.
• Special training, protective gear, scientific duty rotation and, most importantly, societal empathy and solidarity, have all contributed.
• In Kerala, 55 lakh elderly and disadvantaged have received Rs 8,500 as welfare payments.
• An equal number of workers have been paid Rs 1,000- 3,000 each from the welfare funds.
• Every family has been provided with a food kit.
• Interest-free consumption loan of Rs 2,000 crore has been distributed.
• Though it is too early to declare Kerala as a success story, still there are many lessons to be learned by the rest of the country in its fight against Covid-19.
• A political system doesn ’t create a society, it’ s the character of people that enables political systems

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