On October 2, amid applause from round 200 viewers members at New Delhi’s Hotel Le Meridien, 23 people and representatives of organisations posed for {a photograph}. These had been the recipients of India Today’s Healthgiri awards, 2021. The winners, which included docs, directors, social employees and company organisations, had been chosen for his or her efforts in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic to maintain Indians protected and going above and past the decision of responsibility to serve society.On October 2, amid applause from round 200 viewers members at New Delhi’s Hotel Le Meridien, 23 people and representatives of organisations posed for {a photograph}. These had been the recipients of India Today’s Healthgiri awards, 2021. The winners, which included docs, directors, social employees and company organisations, had been chosen for his or her efforts in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic to maintain Indians protected and going above and past the decision of responsibility to serve society.
The most touching second of the ceremony was maybe when the late Guruprasad Mohapatra, a 1986 batch IAS official from the Gujarat cadre, was posthumously awarded the “Unsung Hero” award for his exemplary service as the pinnacle of one of many Centre’s empowered teams coping with numerous elements of the pandemic. Mohapatra succumbed to Covid-related issues in June. His spouse and son acquired the award on his behalf to a standing ovation.
A letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the India Today Group lauding the Healthgiri Awards initiative
Apart from the award ceremony, the seventh version of the Healthgiri awards—because the Safaigiri awards have come to be identified of their sixth and seventh editions because the pandemic shifted our focus from cleanliness to healthcare—noticed panel discussions a few timeline for a Covid vaccine for kids, a potential third wave and performances by famend singers like Udit Narayan, Rekha Bhardwaj and Amit Mishra.
In his welcome tackle, Aroon Purie, chairman and editor-in-chief of the India Today Group, spoke of the significance of cleanliness and identified that the spectre of Covid continues to stalk us. The pandemic, he added, has claimed thousands and thousands of lives worldwide, disrupted lives and livelihoods and ravaged economies. “The residing have had to deal with larger financial insecurity, nervousness and disruption in each facet of their life. For many, challenges to psychological and bodily health stay,” he stated.
Purie additionally lauded the Covid warriors for his or her tireless efforts throughout this era. “It was a battle. And it wanted an distinctive group of warriors to combat it. Across the nation, 1000’s of exceptional women and men and organisations—each within the authorities and the general public—had been our Corona warriors who helped their fellow residents. I imagine that the winners right this moment and those that participated within the Healthgiri Awards are the true heroes and the true champions of New India. It is our privilege to recognise their excellent work,” he stated.
Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya; (Photo: Rajwant Rawat)
The Union minister for health, Mansukh Mandaviya, delivered the keynote tackle on the occasion. In his speech, he attributed the success of India’s combat towards Covid to the devoted service of organisations and social employees. “The authorities did what it may, healthcare employees did what they may and all of us fought collectively. This is our biggest power. We witnessed an excellent dedication by these corona warriors—docs, nurses and authorities staff—and it has been our custom to felicitate such individuals,” says Mandaviya. He cited the instance of a nurse who left her three-month-previous child at dwelling as she stayed and labored on the hospital for weeks, cautious of carrying the virus dwelling together with her.
“The authorities did what it may, healthcare employees did what they may and all of us fought collectively. This is our biggest power”
– Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare
While talking in regards to the ministry’s expenditure of Rs 900 crore in direction of the welfare of the underprivileged, the health minister additionally talked about the meals drives performed by good samaritans in the course of the lockdown. “Look at Hindustan’s power. We didn’t permit our neighbours to sleep on an empty abdomen. Vasudhaiva kutumbakam [the world is my family] is our tradition,” he stated. India, he went on so as to add, was additionally there for the world in a time of disaster and equipped medicines to 123 nations in the course of the first wave of the pandemic.
Mandaviya linked cleanliness and hygiene with Mahatma Gandhi’s classes, saying, “Gandhiji used to say that the true wealth is health. We ought to comply with his ideas…. There must be a wonderful stability among the many panch mahabhuta (earth, water, hearth, air and area) to spice up one’s immunity. If this stability is just not maintained, one’s health gained’t be in fine condition.”
During a session discussing the third wave, health specialists on the panel stated that the potential of one had not been dominated out. It trusted how lengthy vaccines preserve us protected and whether or not a brand new virus variant surfaces, they added. “We can solely guess what’s going to occur within the months forward, however the primary distinction between earlier waves and now’s {that a} vital proportion of the inhabitants is now vaccinated,” Dr Naresh Trehan, chairman, Medanta Hospital, stated. With near 70 per cent of the nation’s grownup inhabitants having acquired at the least one dose of the Covid vaccine, many are actually questioning whether or not a 3rd booster shot is required to extend the period of safety from the virus. “If we’re seeing indicators of recurrence, then we are able to take into account a 3rd dose for them however not if we stay within the present state, the place circumstances of re-an infection are low. So, we should always not leap the gun and provides a 3rd dose to healthcare employees, leaving the remainder of the inhabitants unvaccinated,” Dr Trehan stated. Dr Navin Dang, director of Dr Dangs Lab in Delhi, agreed: “First vaccinate the complete inhabitants after which consider booster pictures.”
The Healthgiri awards occasion additionally put one other subject up for dialogue, one that’s at present near the hearts of many—baby vaccination. By when will it’s accessible and can it’s protected? “I usually get requested that if youngsters are usually not harmed by the virus, why do they want a vaccine. But mother and father overlook that within the publish-restoration interval, youngsters are vulnerable to multi-organ irritation. There are additionally many immunocompromised youngsters in danger from Covid itself,” Dr Anil Sachdeva, paediatrician, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, identified. Experts do predict some vaccine hesitancy within the preliminary days, however hope factual info and proof of the vaccine’s security will persuade mother and father to present their children the protecting jab. Dr Maninder Dhaliwal, affiliate director, Medanta’s paediatric essential care unit, is all for it. “I might say get your baby vaccinated,” she stated. “This vaccine is protected and won’t solely defend your baby but additionally forestall her or him from spreading the virus.”
Winners of Healthgiri Awards, 2021
Category: Winner
BEST GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL COMBATING COVID-19: Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Delhi
BEST PRIVATE HOSPITAL COMBATING COVID-19: Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar
BEST CHARITY HOSPITAL COMBATING COVID-19: Topiwala National Medical College B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai
BEST NGO OR OTHER ENTITY OFFERING HEALTHCARE SERVICES DURING COVID-19: Indo-Global Social Service Society, New Delhi
BEST INNOVATION FOR COVID-RELATED ACTIVITY: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), New Delhi
BEST STATE IN COMBATING COVID-19: Karnataka
CELEBRITIES WHO DID EXEMPLARY WORK DURING THE PANDEMIC: Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna
BEST FAR-REACHING CORPORATE CONTRIBUTION FOR A WIDER SOCIAL IMPACT: Wipro Ltd, Bengaluru
BEST AMBULANCE SERVICE: HelpNow, Mumbai
BEST OXYGEN DELIVERY INITIATIVE: SaveLIFE Foundation, New Delhi; Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, New Delhi
BEST VACCINATION DRIVE BY A STATE: Gujarat; Kerala
BEST COVID VACCINE DELIVERY PROGRAMME BY PRIVATE HOSPITAL: Narayana Health (Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited), Bengaluru; Sir H.N. Reliance Hospital Trust, Mumbai
SPECIAL AWARD, ASSISTANCE IN LAST RITES: Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal, New Delhi
BEST MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLING: The Cyrus & Priya Vandrevala Foundation, Mumbai
BEST CHILD CARE/ SUPPORT: World Vision India
BEST DISTRICT IN COMBATING COVID-19: Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh; Faridabad, Haryana
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF COVID VACCINES: Bharat Biotech, Hyderabad; Serum Institute of India, Pune
SPECIAL AWARD, UNSUNG HERO: Late Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra, New Delhi
