It flu over their heads
Updated On: 10 August, 2009 06:07 AM IST | | Amit Kumar
While the government's busy grunting away to glory, it's the citizens who're bearing the brunt of yet another horrible epidemic
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While the government's busy grunting away to glory, it's the citizens who're bearing the brunt of yet another horrible epidemic. Be it the bird flu, Surat plague, SARS, dengue, malaria, small pox or chikengunia, it's our negligent authorities who manage to play dirty, ironically, by washing their hands off the whole thing when it most requires the attention. On paper, the government has demonstrated the 'required and needed' level of seriousness. If only theory did it. Every year, it is only after the disease has taken its toll that the authorities pull up their socks.
From my past experiences as a health and civic body reporter, I have watched that whenever the first death is reported in the media, civic officials and councilors start their routine drama of fogging, checking coolers and city potholes for water logging, and suspending the lowest-level karamcharis. What efficiency.
From my past experiences as a health and civic body reporter, I have watched that whenever the first death is reported in the media, civic officials and councilors start their routine drama of fogging, checking coolers and city potholes for water logging, and suspending the lowest-level karamcharis. What efficiency.
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