En 2016, el gobierno del Frente Democrático de Izquierda de Kerala anunció el objetivo de reducir la mortalidad infantil a una cifra de un solo dígito. El año pasado, logró reducir la tasa a cinco por cada 1.000 nacimientos, una cifra inferior al promedio nacional de la India e incluso a la de algunos países del Norte global.

In 2016, Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government announced the goal of cutting infant mortality to single digits. Last year, it managed to bring the ratio to five per 1,000 births — lower than India’s national average and even some Global North countries’.

Rising inequality is reinforced by the global financial system, which privileges the wealthier countries and compels the poorer nations to transfer a substantial part of their national income to them.

The COVID-19 crisis was an opportunity for the public systems to recapture their rightful position as the predominant health care providers in the country. But the public systems were unprepared for the task