India s healthcare bureaucracy
there exists in India a particularly inactive version of beadledom called the healthcare bureaucracy. Its task is to look after, literally, the body politic. To this end, it is required to track down disease outbreaks, and speedily stamp on these its dread authority. Continuous monitoring is also a core function, as is the production of cutting-edge epidemiological knowledge. Now, these tasks must surely be onerous: what else could explain the fact of India's healthcare bureaucracy being completely medically challenged?
Consider that metaphor of ignorance called the