24 May Deflating India’s COVID black market boom(Governance, GS-2,The Hindu)
Context:- Covid-19 which has devastated medical supply has also made black economy thrive. This black market acts like a blood succor. So we will talk about how we can undo this tragedy of human.
- Fake tocilizumab injections in Surat and Ahmedabad was unearthed by the Gujarat Food and Drugs Control Administration
- Same story of remdesivir
- Same with the oxygen supply
- persistent challenges many citizens face in medical aid
Why this situation
- administrative organisations are being overwhelmed and helpline numbers inundated with calls
- not receiving a closure communication from helplines
- inaccessibility, a redundant and long communication process flow
- a delay in rendering responses
- Alleged hospital bed-booking scams
- unnecessary hoarding of COVID-19 essentials by the elite
Way forward:-
- administrative mechanisms need to be expanded qualitatively and quantitatively
- identify volunteer groups, train them, optimise them and deploy them on a priority basis
- We need to operationalise technological knowledge in order to ease the communication processes
- reduce the burden on data entry operators
- expert planning model
- we need a strong, decentralised and independent vigilance system which promotes transparency
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