News clip appeared in the daily “The Times Of India” (15th Nov 2007), the heading of the article is shows like some state level cricket match is played between TWO starts Punjab & Bihar. Where Punjab eclipses Bihar’
Medical professionals discriminate in their treatment practices on the basis of race and gender is not new to the society
Here is a classis case of racial / ethnic discrimination in public health program.
There may be many other starts in India where more cases of Tb are reported yet the district TB officer (DTO, a representative of Punjab (health) government) has compared statistics with Bihar state as from Bihar largest number of migrant works comes to the Punjab state. Further as he put his personal opinion for accounting rise on TB in Punjab, which have “NO scientific Study or data”
The other government official in his press statement put Tb infected “migrants laborers” responsible for infecting local rural population.
The news article is adequate to send the massages to local population of Punjab, that Tb is brought to you by migrant population ( specifically form Bihar) to your rural as well as in urban area.
One should wonder, why this migrant community is ‘target’…THIS time?
As this is the month of “Chhath puja” & large number of migrants has gone back to Bihar (and other states like Utter Pradesh, Utteranchal and Jharkhand ) which is the Biggest festival for this community and all time low is the migrant population, which is favorable time to make a propaganda against the migrant population (which is considered as cause of bring unemployment to the local peoples)
This article seems to be a part of political propaganda where TB is “centered” to achieve a goal of stopping migration.
If heath & human rights interest you, do fallow a link to
Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers
http://www.who.int/hhr/Migrants.pdf
4 comments:
Hi, Thanks for your mail. Will soon put link of your blog on Bihar Today. It would also be nice if you can reciprocate the same by giving a link back on your blog.
As you know Bihar Today is one of the most Popular blogs on Bihar and its readership is wide and large.
We are also fighting the Biased Indian Mainstream Media. It would be nice if you could permit us to publish your article in ayour name on BT.
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I beleive that TB has widespread repercussions .
Migrant labourer besides those who come in close contact with them often must be screened for TB . Today it is a curable disease and all efforts must be made to make all parts of the world TB- free ......Rashmi Talwar
Firstly, I gave some stats relating to Indian patients infected with T.B.
4.5 million people in India have T.B.
2 people get infected every three minutes.
1.8 mn. New cases each year.
5000 people developing T.B. each day.
3.7 lakh T.B. deaths every year.
1000 people dying of T.B. each day.
10 to 15 people infected by one untreated person annually.
40% of population infected, but only 10% develop T.B.
In the globalised world increased air travel has made it easier foe viruses
And bacteria to cross borders and cause outbreaks in new populations. Stress, sleepless nights, smoking and crash diets have pushed up T.B.,infection among urban 18 to 35
years olds who now account for 60%
of T.B. infections.
Now we see that govt. can't controll our stress ,sleepless nights and crash diets. But govt. can puts steps towards smokers,who smoke at public places.why govt. is silent in the case of smokers. Government should BAN on the public places.
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