Redesigning resilience in governance
Dr Rajesh Tandon is Founder President of PRIA, New Delhi
Sudama Prasad of Nainpur village in rural areas of Kanpur in UP has moved his family to sleep in the field in open to prevent infection. One or two members of all households in his village are sick for the past 2-3 weeks; common symptoms are fever, cough, body-ache, weakness. At least three persons have died in the village during this period, one of them rather young. There is no health facility as Health Centre has no staff and no medicines; serious cases are taken to block headquarter at Ghatampur. All government health facilities are over-flowing with patients, and private clinics/hospitals have closed doors.