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Uttarakhand has set up 31 temporary hospitals and trained at least 150 doctors to check any swine flu outbreak during Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious congregations in the world that begins Jan 14.
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“The central government has already inspected the arrangements. They have also given us a truckload of masks for tackling swine flu during the congregation,” Pankaj Jain, chief nodal officer for swine flu in Uttarakhand, told IANS.
“The entire Kumbh Mela region - Haridwar, Rishikesh and parts of Dehradun – has been marked as a separate district and divided into 31 sectors. We have set up one temporary hospital with four doctors in each of these sectors with at least 10 beds. The government of India has also given us nearly 300,000 Tamiflu tablets.”
The fair that will go on till April 28 is expected to draw millions of visitors from both India and abroad. The authorities said low temperatures and huge crowds may lead to a major outbreak of swine flu that has already killed 13 people in the hill state. Nearly 130 people have been infected by the virus in Uttarakhand.
“Over 120 doctors have been trained to diagnose and treat swine flu during the congregation. Besides, there are 12 others who have been trained to man Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and operate ventilators in case of emergency situations,” said Jain, who is also the head epidemiologist of the state.
He said these 12 doctors have already been trained at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital in New Delhi. Besides, a team from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had already helped in forming four rapid response teams.
“There are 19 members who will form the four rapid response teams. In each team there will be at least one epidemiologist along with other doctors.”
Across India, over 26,500 people have already been infected with the contagious pandemic virus since the first case was reported in May 2009. Of the above numbers, over 1,000 have succumbed to the disease so far.
Jain said looking at the huge crowds they have now readied 1,000 swine flu sample carriers.
Learn about the history of Kumbh Mela: Pilgrimage and Power: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954
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Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pilgrims were drawn to the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna on the most auspicious day for bathing. In an impressive feat of organization and administration, the first mela of the new millennium was managed to the overwhelming satisfaction of most, with an impressive health and safety record. The loudest complaint had to do with the intrusive presence of the media. Journalists, largely representing foreign media outlets, had swarmed to the mela, intent on broadcasting to a global audience sensational images of naked (or wet-sari-clad) Indians taking part in "ancient" religious rituals. Resistance to foreign interference with the mela has roots that go back 200 years. The British colonial state and the colonized had different ideas about what the Kumbh Mela represented: for the former, it was a potentially dangerous gathering that demanded tight regulation and control, but for the latter it was a sacred sphere in which foreign domination and interference were intolerable. In this book Kama Maclean examines this tension and the manner in which it was negotiated by each side. She asks why and how the colonial state tried to manipulate the mela and, more important, how the mela changed as Indians responded to the colonial power. In recent years many scholars have emphasized the extent to which the Kumbh Mela has been monopolized by the Hindu nationalist movement. Maclean seeks to situate the history of the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad within a much broader context. She explores the role of a pilgrimage fair like the Kumbh Mela in disseminating ideas, particularly political ones like nationalism and ideas about social reform. Kama Maclean tells the mesmerizing and important story of the Kumbh Mela with exciting detail as well as careful scholarly attention, illuminating for the reader the full scope of the event's historical and socio-political context. |
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