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<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">Dear Claudio and David,</p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">Greetings!</span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">Pls do find the below links of the videos. One is a larger documentary film ' The Fatal Error and others are video reports and Testimonies.</span></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">This is produced by a alumni of IPHU, Vijaya Kumar Seethappa. Will be happy if this is useful even in small way to the IPHU participants in Savar.</p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-s1"><font size="4">1. A Video Report on a Mobilisation by Dalit Women for Maternal health care entitlements </font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p2">Increasing incidence of maternal deaths and poor quality of AN care in Hyderabad Karnataka region of the state prompted the Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatan and Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali to undertake a survey in 36 villages under the 7 PHC areas in Sindanoor and Manvi taluks of Raichur district. The survey led by JMS leaders themselves revealed that a dysfunctional public health system had been pushing poor pregnant women to private hospitals for maternal care services. This had led to catastrophic out of pocket expenses for maternal care services. The total average cost incurred for AN check –ups and a normal delivery in private sector (without newborn complications) was Rs.24393. In case of women undergoing c-section, this cost was Rs. 59259. If the newborn suffered complications then the cost jumped up to Rs.31201 in case of women who underwent a normal delivery and Rs. 66067 in case of women undergoing c-section.</p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p3"><span style="line-height:1.5">In drought-prone Raichur district daily wages had plummeted to Rs.120/- per day, going down even as low as Rs.100/- during the lean summer months. Even if one were to assume minimum wage (under MGNREGA) of Rs.236 /- per day per person as the average wage in the past year, with wage work available on an average for 6 months in the past year, the annual income of a family with one earning member would come to Rs. 42480. It is obvious that the costs of various components of maternal care services have pushed several families into penury and destitution for health care services that are supposed to be “free” through various highly touted central as well as state government schemes.</span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVDkopOy0g" style="line-height:1.5" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVDkopOy0g</a><br></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5">2. The Fatal Error</span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p5">Documentary film<span class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-s2"><br>
</span>Duration: 63mins</p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p5"><span style="line-height:1.5">Directed by Vijaya Kumar Seethappa</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p5">The Fatal Error puts the patient center- stage as it takes an unflinching look at the government health insurance schemes and reveals the fine print behind <span class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-s2"><br>
</span>the promise of free health care for the ‘poor’. Bewildering paperwork, smart cards, BPL cards and the ‘right’ disease help patients ‘qualify’ for the <span class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-s2"><br>
</span>scheme but that’s only the beginning of their struggle as they eventually find out.</p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p5">By raising disquieting questions about health insurance and the government’s interest in pushing them, the film uses health insurance schemes as a motif to illustrate <span class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-s2"><br>
</span>the gradual transformation of the government from a protector and guarantor of citizens’ rights to an active champion and agent of the market and its <span class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-s2"><br>
</span>privatization project</p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2kXZCgFA8" style="line-height:1.5" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2kXZCgFA8</a><br></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5"><font size="4">3. Video testimony: </font></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:14.95px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">This </span><span style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span class="gmail-il">video</span></span><span style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span class="gmail-il">testimony</span></span><span style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> is part of a series of </span><span style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span class="gmail-il">video</span></span><span style="line-height:1.5;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> documentation of health care denials, discrimination and deaths in various parts of Karnataka, India.</span><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><font size="4"><u>Malnutrition</u></font><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><span style="line-height:1.5">This video testimony is from Chandrabanda Primary Health Centre, managed by an NGO through PPP model in Raichur district in North Eastern Karnataka. </span><span style="line-height:1.5">Successive governments’ relentless privatization policies -introduction of user fees, handing over PHCs to NGOs and pursuing wasteful ineffective tertiary care schemes at the cost of comprehensive primary health care has pauperized the public health system. </span><span style="line-height:1.5">It is families such as this one who bear the brunt of these policies –deprived of social security measures, paying for health care from the meager earnings of child laborers and pushed to choose between having a roof over their heads and saving their child from the jaws of death.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDW_RPX7RA" style="line-height:1.5" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDW_RPX7RA</a><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><font size="4"><u><span class="gmail-il" style="line-height:1.5;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Maternal</span><span style="line-height:1.5"> </span><span style="line-height:1.5">Delivery Denial</span></u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">Karnataka has the dubious distinction of topping the Southern Indian states for maternal mortality at 144 per lakh live births. <span style="line-height:1.5">Maternal death audits are not conducted regularly, do not involve local CBOs, lack transparency and corrective actions are not taken. </span><span style="line-height:1.5">This testimony illustrates that merely providing all facilities without ensuring the system’s accountability to the people will not translate into better health outcomes. </span></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">The nexus between government doctors and private hospitals, hinted at in the video testimony has presently assumed alarming proportions. </p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">The state government recently made rural service mandatory for all medical graduates. But unless it bans private practice by government doctors, enforces a strict code of conduct, strengthens community accountability mechanisms, women will be caught between the devil and the deep sea.</p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgeG1gYNrw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgeG1gYNrw</a><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><font size="4"><u>TB death</u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-uC-_h1yT0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-uC-_h1yT0</a><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><font size="4"><u><br></u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><font size="4"><u>Snake Death</u></font></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvmeyzKGPXI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvmeyzKGPXI</a><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><br></p><h1 class="gmail-watch-title-container" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:normal;font-size:20px;width:937.5px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'YouTube Noto',Roboto,arial,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap;background-image:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span id="eow-title" class="gmail-watch-title gmail-watch-editable" dir="ltr" title="HIV+ve delivery care denial" style="margin:0px;padding:4px;border:0px;vertical-align:middle;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><u>HIV+ve care denial</u></span></h1><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmcYHkHXJU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmcYHkHXJU</a><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><br></p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">regards</p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1">Vijay</p><p class="gmail-m_6652780867372568992gmail-p1"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:22 AM Claudio Schuftan <<a href="mailto:cschuftan@phmovement.org" target="_blank">cschuftan@phmovement.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">-From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">David G Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dlegge@phmovement.org" target="_blank">dlegge@phmovement.org</a>></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The PHM team charged with organising the forthcoming IPHU in Savar (in the lead up to the Fourth People’s Health Assembly) are keen to identify good videos which illustrate various aspects of health activism in practice (including the evidence of needs, the causes of the needs, the analysis, strategies and tactics, and the activist orientation and commitment). </div><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-GB"><div class="m_6652780867372568992m_-6745009932576340795m_8731994412992036518WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">We would love to hear from you if you have lists of such films or even just one or two or perhaps a really brilliant film which you produced which we really need to watch.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The forthcoming IPHU in Savar includes specialist streams dealing with Access to medicines and Gender and health and we would be particularly grateful for suggestions in these areas.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">In solidarity<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">David Legge<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>
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