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Importance Of Free Ration Supplies During Covid-19: Lessons From The 1918 Spanish Flu
by Dhaval Patel - Jul 2, 2021 09:08 AM
Vendor processes the ration card of an Indian
woman at his Fair Price Shop. (representative image) (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
Snapshot
An important lesson that India learnt from the high-mortality 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was that while the virus itself was deadly, famine, hunger and malnutrition made the situation much worse.
Prime Minister Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) announced immediately after Indiaâs first lockdown ensured that poor sections of the society did not face hunger pangs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A short piece titled âThe Pandemic of Influenza in India in 1918â published in The Lancet in December 1923, carried an account by Dr E S Phipson, health officer of Simla. He mentioned the relatively low stock of food, subnormal rainfall and high prices as key reasons contributing to the genesis of the 1918 pand