Yes, says following eminent Scientists :
Shri Gagandeep Kang………………gkang@cmvellore.ac.in
Shri T Jacob John…………………… vlr_tjjohn@sancharnet.in
Smt Jyotsna Dhawan……………. jdhawan@ccmb.res.in / jdhawan@instem.res.in
Shri Partha Majumder…………....ppm1@nibmg.ac.in / ppm@isical.ac.in
Context :
Scientists
appeal to PM Modi to make Covid-19 data public
/ BL – 29 April 2021
Extract :
Ø A section of scientists in the country, on
Thursday, impressed upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the need to make public the Covid-19 data that is being gathered by the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR) since last year
Ø “The ICMR database is inaccessible to anyone
outside of the government and perhaps also to many within the government. Most
scientists – including several identified by DST (Department of Science and
Technology) and NITI Aayog to develop new prediction models for India – do not have access to these data,” said the scientists who signed the appeal.
Ø A number of Indian scientists, who have been
directly and indirectly working towards enhancing our understanding of the
novel coronavirus, are signatories to the appeal. They include noted vaccine
scientist Gagandeep Kang, renowned clinical virologist T Jacob John, Jyotsana Dhawan, and human geneticist and former president of Indian Academy of Science, Partha Majumder.
Ø They said access to clinical data (with
appropriate safeguards for maintaining patient privacy) is required for analysis and predictions,
and for estimating the requirements for oxygen, medical
supplies, ventilators, ICU beds.
Ø The scientists pointed out that only detailed
analysis of large-scale granular epidemiologist data available with ICMR can
help understand the geographical
variability in patterns
of spread of the infection due to local conditions.
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Dear Dr Harshvardhanji,
I urge you to accede to this request of our Scientists.
In my several e-mails, I have made an appeal for compilation, analysis of such
data for our entire population ( including those who are unaffected by Covid infection
so far )
In my following last e-mail :
Dr
Harshvardhanji, please listen to Shri Chandrasekharji ……[ 21 April
2021 ]
I asked :
“ How can we go
about that business of PREDICTIVE
ANALYSIS ? “
And went on to repeat my following earlier
suggestion :
“ By compiling / capturing
following DATA about each and every Indian citizen ( affected or so far not
affected , by COVID ( source : Vaccine : a Case
of Missing Data / 09
April 2021 )
As to the data
itself, I suggested :
“ But, if meticulously compiled and
centrally processed ( with help of Artificial
Intelligence ), following data, compiled uniformly at source, could
determine those “ VACCINATION PRIORITIES “ :
[ A ] PERSONAL DATA
Name
/ Birthdate ( for Age ) / Gendre / Contact Details / Aadhar number
[ B ] LOCATION DATA
Permanent Address / Current Address ( State – Jilla – City – locality ) /
Red Zone /
Containment
[ C ] FAMILY DATA
Details
of Parents / Siblings
[ D ] HEALTH HISTORY
Details of recent illnesses - morbidity / Medicines given ( including for
Covid
treatment ) / Hospitals where
Doctor who treated
[
E ] ETHNIC DATA
Race
/ Religion / Language ( Mother tongue )
[ F ] EDUCATIONAL DATA
Graduate
– Under Graduate – Illiterate etc
[ G ] EMPLOYMENT DATA
Employed
– Unemployed – Self employed
[ H ] INCOME DATA
Monthly Income (to determine whether
RICH–MIDDLE CLASS–POOR )
WORD OF CAUTION :
As it is, we are having major problems with wide-spread
reports ( which include my own experience ), of NON-FUNCTIONING
/ MAL-FUNCTIONING of Covid App and COWIN portal
This is despite it being a Single - Unified –
Centralized – Structured platform , to be followed
uniformly / identically, by every person who wants to get vaccinated , from any part of India and from a Govt vaccination
Centre or a Private Hospital – Nursing Home or a Work Place of Business /
Industry , and in course of time, even by a family doctor visiting the homes of
bedridden people
Today’s news report reads as follows :
“
Maharashtra CM writes to the Centre demanding de-centralization of the CoWin
registration App “
If this request
is granted, similar requests will follow from many other States – and CHAOS
will follow, with each State
Registration Apps, collecting different data , which cannot be aggregated !
Then, we can forget about Data Analysis and Prediction
!
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com /
01 May 2021
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Copy
to following ICMR Scientists :
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Balram Bhargava…………. secy-dg@icmr.gov.in
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Amit Prakash Sharma……amitps.nimr@icmr.gov.in |
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Arun Kumar Sharma………a.sharma@icmr.gov.in |
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Ashwani Kumar…………….. director.vcrc@icmr.gov.in |
C Padmapriyadarsini ……padmapriyadarsinic@nirt.res.in
Debprasad Chattopadhyay……director.nitm.bg@gmail.com
Dr Prabha Desikan……….prabhadesikan@yahoo.com
Dr. Aparup Das…………….director@nirth.res.in
Geetanjali Sachdeva………….sachdevag@nirrh.res.in
Hemalatha Rajkumar………….rhemalatha.nin@icmr.gov.in
Kamalesh Sarkar……………. kamalesh.sarkar@icmr.gov.in
Kanwar Narain…………….knarain.rmrcne@gov.in
Krishna Pandey…………….pandey.krishna@icmr.gov.in
M Vishnu Vardhana Rao…..nims.director@icmr.gov.in
Manisha Madkaikar…………madkaikar.manisha@gov.in
Manoj V Murhekar…………director.nie@icmr.gov.in
P Vijayachari……………..vijayachari.p@icmr.gov.in
Prashant Mathur………….director@ncdirindia.org
Priya Abraham……………priya.abraham@icmr.gov.in
Rajnarayan Ramshankar Tiwari……….tiwari.rr@gov.in
Rajni Kant……………….kantr.hq@icmr.gov.in
Samiran Panda…………..samiranpanda.hq@icmr.gov.in
Sanghamitra Pati………..dir.rmrcb@icmr.gov.in
Shalini Singh……………..director.nicpr@icmr.gov.in
Shanta Dutta……………shanta.niced@icmr.gov.in
Shripad A. Patil…………directorjalma@gmail.com
Usha Agrawal………….ushakaggarwal.nip@gov.in
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