The Chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, has regularly spoken on social media about the pandemic and given suggestions or retweeted ideas that others should follow in these tough times.
In his recent tweet, the industrialist said that the country's second largest city Osaka - which is facing a huge wave of new infections - should try the 'Mumbai Model' to control the situation. In addition, he advised that everyone must understand that the virus can only be defeated if we mount a collective effort to “heal the world together”.
This statement comes as Japan battles a fresh wave of coronavirus. Hospitals in Japan's second-largest city of Osaka are buckling under a huge wave of new coronavirus infections, running out of beds and ventilators as exhausted doctors warn of a "system collapse".
Moreover, Mahindra asked people to stop “India-bashing”, suggesting nothing of value can be added to the fight by doing so.
On Tuesday, he shared a report saying that hospitals in Japan's Osaka, a large port city and a commercial centre similar to Mumbai, are running out of beds and ventilators during a fresh wave of the pandemic.
"The ‘Japanese model’ of fighting Covid & their health infrastructure was envied. But yes, “No one’s safe anymore." The India-bashing should stop & we need to understand that we have to heal the world TOGETHER. Osaka should try the ‘Mumbai Model," Anand Mahindra tweeted.
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Learning from the first wave last year, authorities in Mumbai made several improvements to their approach to tackle the second wave.
"Have been tweeting about hopeful signs of improvement in Mumbai. People were naturally sceptical about low testing & under-reporting. The litmus test, however, is the availability of hospital beds & the @mybmc covid dashboard shows that’s been steadily improving," Mahindra had said in a tweet on May 9.
Mumbai, with a dense population of more than 12.5 million people, divided its main disaster control room into 24 'war rooms' - where experts monitored availability of beds on a live tracker and allotted them to patients, and also set up crisis management teams that networked with hospitals and transported surplus oxygen from one place to others in need, among various other steps to tackle the deadly wave.
The steps taken by the city to prepare itself to handle the second wave have been lauded across the country, with the Supreme Court even recommending that the capital city of New Delhi should replicate the 'Mumbai model'.
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