Proactively tackling Swine Flu

With three more swine flu deaths in the space of a day, and many more cases streaming in from across the country, India is suddenly staring at the reality that the world has been preparing for since April 2009

The Centre, as well as the state governments, seem to be pressing the accelerator to tackle a deteriorating situation and contain the growing panic as fresh cases were reported from places like Delhi, Chennai, Goa and even Jaipur, while a few continued to battle for their lives in Mumbai and Pune.

This is a pandemic that WHO has worked with national Governments to tackle. It is unlikely that any Governmental action could have prevented its occurance in India but :

Why does it take a few hundred established cases to launch a website ?

Why does it take fatalities to add screening centers ?

Why , in the case of a pandemic, do we need to classify Government hospitals and private hospitals and the responsibilities attached to the respective status types ?

Why are simple facts not published every single day for public consumption ?

Why can daily briefings not happen in every Primary Health center ?

Why is it seeming like no one has been proactive here ? Why has the ramp up not happened on a war footing ?

Better late than never.

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