KK Shailaja, face of Kerala’s Covid disaster, awarded for dealing with pandemic

Former Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja, additionally fondly often called Shailaja Teacher within the “liberal-secular” media coterie, has been awarded this yr’s Central European University (CEU) Open Society Prize.
The award was introduced throughout the digital convocation of the Central European University in Vienna on Friday. The Central European University is based by Hungary-American liberal billionaire George Soros, who is understood in India for his giant scale anti-India propaganda.
According to the Central European University, the annual award has bestowed upon the controversial Communist chief for exhibiting “exceptional distinction” of serving the “ideals of an open society”. KK Shailaja was awarded for her ‘service’ after she was dropped from the cabinet after the left entrance got here again to energy in Kerala final month.
Announcing the award, President and Rector of CEU, Michael Ignatieff stated, “As minister of public health in the Indian state of Kerala, during the COVID-19 pandemic, KK Shailaja Teacher, demonstrated to the world that determined leadership, community based public health and effective communication can save lives. Shailaja Teacher’s example will inspire young women to enter public service. By awarding CEU’s highest award to Shailaja Teacher, the university honours a public servant and female leader for her commitment to public health services, the bedrock of every open society.”
To all the scholars who’re graduating in the present day, I need to say that studying is a steady course of. Stay curious and continue to learn and share your information with others. – Okay.Okay. Shailaja Teacher, Former Minister of Health, Kerala, India and 2021 Open Society Prize Recipient— Central European University (@ceu) June 18, 2021
In her acceptance speech, former Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja claimed it was a pleasure to specific her deep gratitude to CEU for conferring the Open Society Prize. “I am truly humbled and honoured to be placed alongside the distinguished previous honoraries, all of whom have made important contributions to an open society,” the Communist chief claimed.
It is value mentioning that George Soros, via his Open Society University Network, a global grant-making community based by him, has been attempting to interfering in India’s political affairs for a very long time. Earlier, Soros had promised to fund not less than $1 billion to “fight nationalists” in international locations equivalent to India and has been extraordinarily lively in funding far-left components to tackle nationalists within the nation.
However, it isn’t a shock that George Soros has now determined to grant an “award” to the controversial former Kerala Health Minister, who’s answerable for amplifying the well being disaster not simply in Kerala but additionally in the whole southern India.
Strangely, the controversial Kerala Minister KK Shailaja has been hailed by Soros-funded college for her alleged dedication to the general public well being system at a time when her personal Communist colleagues have rejected her for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic. In truth, KK Shailaja’s achievements had been so shoddy that she was dropped because the Kerala Health minister by the Kerala authorities.
KK Shailaja – the face of Kerala Covid-19 disgrace
Shailaja, a retired instructor, gained reputation because the well being minister for the ‘Kerala model’ of battling the pandemic. She was lauded by nationwide and worldwide media lauded for her dealing with of the Covid-19 virus. In September final yr, much like Soros-funded college, a UK-based journal had chosen Shailaja because the “Top Thinker of the Year 2020”.
KK Shailaja was on the helm of the ‘Kerala model’ of tackling Covid-19 which was celebrated by the “liberal-secular” press, nonetheless, didn’t translate on the bottom as Kerala has grow 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 circumstances with increased caseloads, even affecting neighbouring states equivalent to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Instead of tackling the pandemic, KK Shailaja and her staff indulged in a PR sport to spice up her picture and promote the success of the so-called Kerala mannequin.
In truth, the Kerala Health Ministry was accused of overlaying up the Covid-19 deaths within the state by underreporting the deaths. A gaggle 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.
During the second wave of the pandemic, the state persistently reported greater than 25,000 circumstances 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 circumstances reported by Kerala in a single day was on May 12, when the state reported over 43,000 circumstances in a single day.
The greatness of KK Shailaja was a lot that she was thrown out of the Health Ministry by Pinarayi Vijayan-led authorities within the newly fashioned authorities. She has been changed because the well being minister within the state. Despite all that PR marketing campaign, KK Shailaja, aka Shailaja instructor, couldn’t grow to be Health Minister once more.
Interestingly, the award to KK Shailaja comes at a time when Kerala has been discovering it robust to deal with the pandemic within the state. Kerala, which was one of many epicentres of the primary wave of the Covid-19, proceed to report a excessive variety of contemporary circumstances within the nation at the same time as the remainder of the nation has stabilised the an infection. As we converse, Kerala, with a inhabitants of round 3 crore individuals, now leads the nation in day by day new Covid circumstances. Over 20% of contemporary new circumstances yesterday had been from Kerala alone.