Poorly Manged Public Healthcare Delivery System, Dengue, Politics And Media. A Saga Of TRP, Blame Games Without Any Solution. In our country public health which is highly specialised and should be of top priority, is very mismanaged by our governments and very miscommunicated by our electronic media. Media can play a very constructive role in any good public health program, in fact it is not possible to conceptualise a good public health awareness program without media. At the same time irresponsible reporting from media can create panic among people.
It is exactly happening nowadays regarding dengue. Fever can be due to many reasons, dengue is one of them. Most of the dengue patients need not to get hospitalised, they can be treated very well in OPD and home, only a few patients who developed complications required hospitalisation. Panic created by media and miscommunication resulted…
