For many Indians who contract Covid, the road to recovery passes through the desolate swampland of poverty and debt. Whether they choose to sell their home and hearth, borrow money, or do both, their life takes a turn for the worse. Out-of-pocket health expenses drove 55 million Indians into poverty in 2017 alone.rn rnIn this, the first of a series of deep dives into India’s moribund healthcare system, Viswanath Pilla takes you along the road Odisha’s Ganesh Prasad and Telangana’s Lakshmi Narasamma travelled. In fine detail, he outlines their journey: what the disease did to the duo, how the healthcare system saved one, lost another and plunged both families into penuryHow Covid-19 brought the faultlines of India’s creaking healthcare to the fore
For many Indians who contract Covid, the road to recovery passes through the desolate swampland of poverty and debt. Whether they choose to sell their home and hearth, borrow money, or do both, their life takes a turn for the worse. Out-of-pocket health expenses drove 55 million Indians into poverty in 2017 alone.rn rnIn this, the first of a series of deep dives into India’s moribund healthcare system, Viswanath Pilla takes you along the road Odisha’s Ganesh Prasad and Telangana’s Lakshmi Narasamma travelled. In fine detail, he outlines their journey: what the disease did to the duo, how the healthcare system saved one, lost another and plunged both families into penury
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