Irony: Kerala’s former well being minister Shailaja to talk at IIM-B on Covid administration

Former Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja, additionally fondly generally known as Shailaja Teacher within the “liberal-secular” media circles, is all set to ship a lecture within the prestigious Indian Institute of Management – Bengaluru on her “successful” administration of the Covid-19 disaster in Kerala, sarcastically, whereas the state continues to be one of many worst affected in India.
In a tweet, the IIM-B introduced that it has determined to host former Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja to ship a chat to their college students on managing the Covid-19 pandemic and its results on coverage implications. The Centre for Public Policy (CPP) on the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) will host the third lecture in its Foundation Day Lecture Series on Saturday, July 10.
on the subject: ‘Policy Implications of the Pandemic: Learnings from Managing Covid-19’. Register now on: https://t.co/euE8Q5RNdFWatch stay right here: https://t.co/bczhH93yeh#IIMB #IIMBangalore #FoundationDay #CoVid19 #CPP(2/2)— IIM Bangalore (@iimb_official) July 7, 2021
“The lecture will be delivered by KK Shailaja, former Minister for Health, Social Justice, and Woman and Child Development, Government of Kerala, on the topic: ‘Policy Implications of the Pandemic: Learnings from Managing Covid-19’,” mentioned an announcement launched by IIM-B.
Strangely, the invite for controversial Kerala Minister KK Shailaja by IIM-B to ship a chat on managing the Covid-19 disaster comes at a time when the large mismanagement of the Covid-19 disaster in Kerala is evident.
Moreover, Shailaja was just lately relieved from her submit as Health Minister by the ruling get together in Kerala.
KK Shailaja – the face of Kerala Covid-19 disaster
Shailaja, a retired trainer, gained recognition because the well being minister for the ‘Kerala model’ of battling the pandemic. She was lauded by nationwide and worldwide media for her dealing with of the Covid-19 virus for some unusual causes even whereas Kerala continued to stay amongst India’s worst-affected states. In September final 12 months, much like Soros-funded college, a UK-based journal had chosen Shailaja because the “Top Thinker of the Year 2020”.
Ironically, only recently, she was even awarded by George Soros-funded University for her ‘commitment to public health service’.
KK Shailaja was on the helm of the ‘Kerala model’ of tackling Covid-19 which was celebrated by the ‘liberal-secular” media ecosystem, nevertheless, it didn’t translate on the bottom as even right this moment, Kerala stays to be one of many worst affected states within the nation throughout each the waves of Covid-19 pandemic.
Under KK Shailaja’s management, the Kerala mannequin of Covid-19 administration failed spectacularly. During the primary wave, Kerala turned out to be an epicentre of Covid-19 instances with continuously excessive caseloads, even affecting neighbouring states comparable to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
However, as a substitute of addressing points on the bottom, Shailaja and her staff had been seen busy in maintaining their PR recreation, accepting praises and receiving awards whereas the pandemic raged within the state.
In truth, the Kerala Health Ministry was accused of protecting up the Covid-19 deaths within the state by underreporting the deaths. A bunch of researchers had uncovered the Kerala authorities’s shameful act of intentionally hiding the quantity of people that have succumbed to the pandemic to maintain their picture intact.
Kerala continues to be epicentre of the pandemic
During the second wave of the pandemic, the state persistently reported greater than 25,000 instances a day. In the meantime, Kerala and Maharashtra, one other non-NDA dominated state, accounted for practically 75 per cent of the entire caseloads within the nation. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare knowledge, the utmost variety of new instances reported by Kerala in a single day was on May 12, when the state reported over 43,000 instances.
As we converse, Kerala alone has accounted for practically one-third of the entire variety of instances within the nation. On Wednesday, July 7, Kerala recorded 15,600 recent Covid-19 infections, at the same time as India accounted for lower than 45,000 instances. Far from efficient Covid administration, Kerala has truly been a burden to the nation’s efforts to deal with the pandemic at the same time as different states have efficiently diminished recent Covid-19 instances.
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The mismanagement of KK Shailaja is so evident in the truth that Kerala has continuously been recording over 12,000 instances nearly day-after-day through the second wave of the pandemic, taking the entire tally of Covid-19 instances to over 30 lakh infections because the creation of the pandemic.
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Despite all of the PR blitzkrieg, the sham of the Kerala mannequin of Covid-19 helmed by KK Shailaja has been totally uncovered. Recently, Shailaja has been changed because the well being minister within the state.
However, it’s quite intriguing to know why would the premier schooling institutes within the nation, comparable to IIM-Bengaluru, fall for the false propaganda and PR overdrive of “liberal-secular” media and find yourself inviting KK Shailaja,