NFI Fellowships 2021
2021-Round 2 English
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Bijayalaxmi Biswal
Cuttack, Odisha
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Bijayalaxmi Biswal is a Cuttack based medical doctor and public health researcher currently studying the intersections of mining, indigenous rights and public health. She writes on environment, tribal health, gender and caste. As part of the fellowship, Bijaya published a report on the failures of Odisha government response to Covid-19 and how it reinforces the state’s deep inequities. In the process of reporting, she was helped and mentored by Rajat Ghai.
PUBLISHED IN Scroll ON 10 September 2021
In Odisha, Covid-19 exposed governance failures and reinforced the state’s deep inequities
In Odisha, Covid-19 exposed governance failures and reinforced the state’s deep inequities
The state government had officially announced district helpline numbers for Covid-19 patients. But the Citizens’ Collective for Public Health, a public health organisation that works in Odisha, found that the “helpline” numbers were merely the landline numbers of the nearest government health centres where, in most cases, a peon would pick up and respond.
