It assured all the facilities to guest laborers and distributed ration along with the central government and took special care for elderly and homeless people. And more interestingly the education minister declares that they will conduct exams after the complete recovery, and it would be conducted only by giving sufficient time to study. Even the government had concerns over the stray monkeys and donkeys. They not only did look after the life of the people but the lifelines too.
Thasleema Chakkalakal
The measure of a country’s greatness is in its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. The words of Thurgood Marshal throwing light on the necessity to maintain humanity when the lives of human beings are in danger. Here Kerala stands as a beacon of light not only for India but also the whole world. Kerala is making a stunning example before the world by fighting against the Covid 19.
There is no magic behind the success story of Kerala for flattening the curve of this spread, and the state has already won International appreciations for successfully handling the Nipah virus outbreak in 2018. This state has a very well established primary health care system and a network that if somebody gets infected here the report will be submitted on the table of the Health minister of Kerala. The state has that kind of Healthcare network which include multi speciality hospitals to Primary Health Care Centres in each village. And Collective endeavours of Goverment, health department , police department,other departments and layman under the leadership of Chief minister of Kerala resulted in the effective prevention of Virus hitherto.
The first Coronavirus patient in India was a Keralite who was a student from Wuhan province in China and the other three patients from China were diagnosed and Kerala has taken prevention measures for not spreading the virus to more people. Even though the second coming was not an easy task for Kerala but the health department took the herculean task. Moreover, the health department had a pre-planned system and they made protocol far before. And also did efficient contact tracing with the help of police and manifested an organized isolation system. Along with this, the Kerala public did a very good job to support the government and Healthcare system.
The people have shown more consciousness and avoided public gatherings including the religious ceremonies and most of the churches, temples and mosques were closed in Kerala in its second advance of the virus, very before the lockdown. Religious leaders also have shown commitment and advised people to stay at home. The people helped the government by voluntarily social distancing themselves and they have participated break the chain movement initiated by the government itself. The social and political leaders from ministry level to the ward level did their maximum. ASHA workers, Kudumbasree workers, have contributed to one of the most noticeable achievements in Kerala which has more than 45 lakh women who helped the government for their data collection and a community kitchen.
At the time of pandemic, the Malayalam media did a very good ‘ job and they were keen to provide information from the government and officials which helped the public to fight against the fake news produced by the WhatsApp universities. What made the Kerala disaster management system more unrivaled is the element of concern. The government tried to safeguard the people who were in the last of the Que. It assured all the facilities to guest laborers and distributed ration along with the central government and took special care for elderly and homeless people. And more interestingly the education minister declares that they will conduct exams after the complete recovery, and it would be conducted only by giving sufficient time to study. Even the government had concerns over the stray monkeys and donkeys. They not only did look after the life of the people but the lifelines too.
The Kerala model is considered more beautiful because it has a democratic and more human face and it is manifested in scientific temperament fuelled by a culture of education. A week before the prime minister of Britain claimed that there is no problem in shaking hands soon after which he got admitted. And some leaders of the other Nations also claimed it is the divine punishment for homosexuality and blasphemy. People made racial comments and insulted Chinese and Northeast Indians by calling Corona.
In India, corona became Jihadi after Nizamuddin Markaz sprouted out to be the hot spot of discussion. But the chief minister of Kerala declared that,” There is a converting campaign in social media using the tabligi religious gathering in Delhi to malign and target Muslims and their religious beliefs. This cannot be tolerated. At a time when we are facing a health crisis nobody should try to use it for communal purposes. Coronavirus does not differentiate people belonging to different religions”. The opposition of Kerala and the Media didn’t paint the color of communalism to the virus. Kerala has been fighting against Corona as well as Communalism. It identified that marginalizing diseased people is a sick mentality and not befitting for a modern state.
Moreover, the government and people of this state are not ready for taking any kind of chances and they are fighting for a disease that has shattered all the developed Nations. So it has one vision that is to tackle away and vanquish the Coronavirus. Channelizing this effort into communal activities only will make the situation worse. This state blurts the need to be human even in the time of crisis and only that ‘human’ can take forward a crisis. Kerala is speaking from the experiences of Okhi storm 2017, Nipah 2018, Flood 2018, Flood 2019. Unfortunately, our developed nations lacked this human face.
